This circle (circle one) has slash-or-other-norm/predominately women comics fandom. That circle (circle two) has het/gen/canon pairings norm/predominately male. It's bigger and older.
Most of circle one is aware of circle two, and generally leaves it be. there is some intersection, but not a lot. Circle two is only distantly aware of circle one, and probably thinks it's pretty much *all* circle two. And when they stumble across circle one... something has to break, and for them, it's either their world view (or fandom view which, heh, can be pretty much the same) or circle one. It doesn't fit in their world, and for them, it's *all* their world.
Whereas people that start in circle one are usually aware of circle two, or at least, it's potential existence. More than that, we're aware of subcircles, individual circles, which exist, but aren't entirely *ours*. We feel no need to change those circles because, well, they're not ours. We kind of are happy to know that they exist, but don't feel any real need to mess about with them. Not our circle, not our interest, so we're... not interested (with the qualifier that, sooner or later, someone will post something to get us interested).
But for circle two... like coming over the ocean and seeing all these different countries out there, and reacting like -- what? what are you doing? That's not how it works! You don't *exist*! Why are you doing this in *our* world! That's not how it *works*!. And then there is a live-and-let-live contingent in Circle Two, but, well, we don't see those. We only see the aggressive ones, the ones that view as invaders in *their* circle, and respond by attacking *ours*.
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timeasmymeasure
World views/circles
Date: 2005-01-08 02:24 pm (UTC)This circle (circle one) has slash-or-other-norm/predominately women comics fandom. That circle (circle two) has het/gen/canon pairings norm/predominately male. It's bigger and older.
Most of circle one is aware of circle two, and generally leaves it be. there is some intersection, but not a lot. Circle two is only distantly aware of circle one, and probably thinks it's pretty much *all* circle two. And when they stumble across circle one... something has to break, and for them, it's either their world view (or fandom view which, heh, can be pretty much the same) or circle one. It doesn't fit in their world, and for them, it's *all* their world.
Whereas people that start in circle one are usually aware of circle two, or at least, it's potential existence. More than that, we're aware of subcircles, individual circles, which exist, but aren't entirely *ours*. We feel no need to change those circles because, well, they're not ours. We kind of are happy to know that they exist, but don't feel any real need to mess about with them. Not our circle, not our interest, so we're... not interested (with the qualifier that, sooner or later, someone will post something to get us interested).
But for circle two... like coming over the ocean and seeing all these different countries out there, and reacting like -- what? what are you doing? That's not how it works! You don't *exist*! Why are you doing this in *our* world! That's not how it *works*!. And then there is a live-and-let-live contingent in Circle Two, but, well, we don't see those. We only see the aggressive ones, the ones that view as invaders in *their* circle, and respond by attacking *ours*.