I was a bit distressed to see you using the word 'fangirl' in such a derogatory way, and to talk about fan entitlement in such gendered way. No, I've never heard of male fans handling actors explicit fanfiction about their own characters, but there are plenty of male fans who do act in ridiculous ways.
The blurring of creator and creation and between actors, their 'real' lives, and their public personae, IMO, is not just an issue for what we describe as 'fandom', and it feels weird to feel a finger pointed in that direction when-- as someone funnier than I pointed out the other day-- I know more about Kate Gosselin's fertility than I do my own.
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on 2010-01-02 08:04 pm (UTC)The blurring of creator and creation and between actors, their 'real' lives, and their public personae, IMO, is not just an issue for what we describe as 'fandom', and it feels weird to feel a finger pointed in that direction when-- as someone funnier than I pointed out the other day-- I know more about Kate Gosselin's fertility than I do my own.