*fangirls self* (ooh, kinky)
Jul. 16th, 2003 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321In the car, I heard Leading Lives on BBC Radio 4 (repeated tonight at 9.30). It was about, whaddayaknow, fandom.
They had David Essex and a guy from Take That and a woman called Louise Remings (or similar) who wrote the diaries of a 14-year old (based on her own pubescent fannishness) and some other man whose name escapes me.
Some things they mused on:
Fandom is sexual but does not necessarily involve wishing to have sex with the star (at least not in adolescence). In fact, all of the people (both the ex-fan and the ex-heartthrobs) reported that when coming face-to-face with a fan (hiding in their wardrobe, for example), fans ended up being completely tongue-tied and not knowing what to do or think.
My own musing: drooling is not like having a crush over boy at your local Boots or boy mixing the mag. It's about drooling over people who are Larger than Life (Velvet Goldmine, hello!). F2f is not larger than life, it's normal. F2f and Larger than Life is perhaps, on some levels, incommensurate.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thejennabides, though, what do you think, being an inveterate f2f'er?? But also a tongue-tied helpless person when in the presence of the Curly One, heh!!
What else did they say? Oh yes, interesting: some hormone called oxytocin is released when being touchy-feely, and it is also present in women to a much larger extent than in men, and especially in adolescent girls. They were musing on the possible connection of oxytocin to fannishness.
Hah!!! I love it! A pseudo-hormono-scientific-genetico explanation!!
"Oh, sorry, Mr Bloom, for throwing myself at your crotch. It's me oxytocin levels."
Also: fans move in packs. They cited the example of a former Bay City Rollers fan (*screams*) who wrote an autobiography. It was all about getting together with the other fans (all girls), going to concerts, making friends. They're all now married and have kids and still she hangs out with those friends from fandom days.
Me: This, of course, chimes in with my musings about the Four Feet of Fandom: community overrules boy-on-boy and fandom.
Next, I want to muse on how slashfans are different from other fans. (Superior, of course! By far!!)
They had David Essex and a guy from Take That and a woman called Louise Remings (or similar) who wrote the diaries of a 14-year old (based on her own pubescent fannishness) and some other man whose name escapes me.
Some things they mused on:
Fandom is sexual but does not necessarily involve wishing to have sex with the star (at least not in adolescence). In fact, all of the people (both the ex-fan and the ex-heartthrobs) reported that when coming face-to-face with a fan (hiding in their wardrobe, for example), fans ended up being completely tongue-tied and not knowing what to do or think.
My own musing: drooling is not like having a crush over boy at your local Boots or boy mixing the mag. It's about drooling over people who are Larger than Life (Velvet Goldmine, hello!). F2f is not larger than life, it's normal. F2f and Larger than Life is perhaps, on some levels, incommensurate.
thejennabides, though, what do you think, being an inveterate f2f'er?? But also a tongue-tied helpless person when in the presence of the Curly One, heh!!What else did they say? Oh yes, interesting: some hormone called oxytocin is released when being touchy-feely, and it is also present in women to a much larger extent than in men, and especially in adolescent girls. They were musing on the possible connection of oxytocin to fannishness.
Hah!!! I love it! A pseudo-hormono-scientific-genetico explanation!!
"Oh, sorry, Mr Bloom, for throwing myself at your crotch. It's me oxytocin levels."
Also: fans move in packs. They cited the example of a former Bay City Rollers fan (*screams*) who wrote an autobiography. It was all about getting together with the other fans (all girls), going to concerts, making friends. They're all now married and have kids and still she hangs out with those friends from fandom days.
Me: This, of course, chimes in with my musings about the Four Feet of Fandom: community overrules boy-on-boy and fandom.
Next, I want to muse on how slashfans are different from other fans. (Superior, of course! By far!!)