We Are Not Alone
May. 13th, 2003 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentFrom here:
Isn't that good to know?
The findings, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, show that celebrity worship is not just the remit of teenage girls or science fiction fans, and can be split up into three different stages.
Isn't that good to know?
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Date: 2003-05-13 11:19 am (UTC)*sigh*
i don't think of my fandom as worship. If i was watching reality tv and buying heat magazine (and all that stuff) every week, thats what i characterise as such. So i suppose i am just as biased as everyone else. hi, my name's aileen, and i'm a reality tv and tabloid journalism snob. I feel better for that.
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Date: 2003-05-13 12:16 pm (UTC)And how is this a 'disease', then? To show interest in someone's work and enjoy discussing it with people is hardly a DSM IV or ICD-10 classified 'deviance', I'd think...
:-)
Date: 2003-05-13 01:22 pm (UTC):-)
(yup, deliberate meme bleed...hehehe; hey, at least it makes the point)
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