Not necessarily, but I think the problem Niall's having is that for everyone except him, 'fandom' is a far more encompassing term than he wants it to be.
I mean from where I'm sitting, that he is a part of SF fandom is so glaringly obvious that pondering whether he is or isn't is an utterly redundant exercise. They may be other people who are also part of the fandom with whom he feels he has little in common, but that does not mean you're not both part of it, just as there are plenty of people at the Buffy cons I've been to I have nothing in common with but to deny that we're all there because we're part of Buffy fandom would be, well, stupid.
I would add that if this kind of nitpicking is meant to make the 'SF community' more inclusive, he might find it has quite the opposite effect..
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Date: 2005-08-03 12:10 pm (UTC)I mean from where I'm sitting, that he is a part of SF fandom is so glaringly obvious that pondering whether he is or isn't is an utterly redundant exercise. They may be other people who are also part of the fandom with whom he feels he has little in common, but that does not mean you're not both part of it, just as there are plenty of people at the Buffy cons I've been to I have nothing in common with but to deny that we're all there because we're part of Buffy fandom would be, well, stupid.
I would add that if this kind of nitpicking is meant to make the 'SF community' more inclusive, he might find it has quite the opposite effect..