but my goal is making new friends, not scoring points.

Yeah, I might not have articulated properly -- the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.

That is on the creepy side.

It seems like such a natural move. You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.

For the record, I did tell him that he was creepy and stalkery and told him to go fuck himself, before I blocked him. Because I'm classy like that.

Thank you for my first outburst of laughter this day.

I'm playing classical music loud an effort to fool the dog and have her not notice the thunder. I don't think it is working.

You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.

Yes, but you leave out the part where these people hate women.

the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.

Oh yeah, I got that.

Silly Broflakes. You wanna go up against a BUFFISTA in a fan-off? Really? We are legion, we are cranky, many of us are professional research librarians, and we have been doing this a LONG LONG TIME.

Some of the special snowflakes out there amaze me. Women fans run up against the worst of it by far. It just never ceases to amaze me. I've had fans challenge me on horror cred. I'm not a fan, I'm actually the guy making it.

::high-fives Steph::

Right, Jessica? We will destroy you, if we deign to do so.

Steph, that was a great way of dealing with the bro.

I've had fans challenge me on horror cred. I'm not a fan, I'm actually the guy making it.

I've had some of the elitist gatekeeping babygoths challenge me on my goth cred. Apparently I'm not a Real Goth [TM] because I wear color, don't exclusively listen to classic old goth bands, and don't like Joy Division. But I never have to say anything to them -- other people jump in the posts and tell them off.

Elseweb, one super-conservative bro just went on a whole long self-justifying rant about the fact that he's not mad because they cast a woman! Really! He's super super angry about the fact that the War Doctor broke the regeneration rules and they should never have regenerated again at all!

Second non-bro dude fabulously shut him down with

well, true fans of doctor who believe he should have never regenerated to begin with, the lore was added after the fact. technically, if you stick to the original storyline, the Doctor is still William Hartnell. He's 109, but only in human years.

(both dudes are ex-coworkers of mine who I quite like aside for the politics on #1. But I'm posting here because unlike facebook there is ZERO overlap.)

Postscript to the "What is your Geek fandom" incident: the incident was on a post by a friend of mine. A mutual FB acquaintance of mine and the friend just berated the two of us -- not Creepy Fanboy -- for (I am not making this up) "acting like Gamergaters." Because...we thought Creepy Fanboy went too far by creeping on my timeline? Also, she doesn't even know Creepy Fanboy, she just thinks that Friend and I were "acting like Gamergaters." I was too busy bitching about Creepy Fanboy to dox him, so I have no idea what she's talking about.

I don't even know. For real. Acquaintance was all "I hate to lose longtime friends over this behavior!!!" (She truly is barely an acquaintance in my mind, and my reaction -- internally -- was "...buh? Okay, then." I didn't actually reply to her dramatic pronouncement, because, what the shit, lady.)

People are insane.