Fanfiction 101
Oct. 20th, 2010 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaOh yeah, and it was extremely hard to keep a straight face today in my sociology class when my professor started talking about -- off all things -- fanfiction. I'm serious! He studies pop culture and apparently fandom is one of his focuses, and so he started talking about CSI Fanfiction and I practically died.
One thing he's dedicated to tearing down the idea of is that if you're a fan of a particular person, work, etc. then you're using them as a role model. According to him this is nonsense since it makes things like women liking slash not make any sense, and I agree with him. I also pointed out that someone like me, a lesbian who likes slash, doesn't make any sense in that view either.
But still, I could not stop giggling about the fact that my college professor was actually talking about fanfiction. I love sociology.
One thing he's dedicated to tearing down the idea of is that if you're a fan of a particular person, work, etc. then you're using them as a role model. According to him this is nonsense since it makes things like women liking slash not make any sense, and I agree with him. I also pointed out that someone like me, a lesbian who likes slash, doesn't make any sense in that view either.
But still, I could not stop giggling about the fact that my college professor was actually talking about fanfiction. I love sociology.
