Related to the fandom ruining fandom discussion, I've recently come to the thought that I'm surprised I'm not, like, the BIGGEST ASSHOLE ever.
Like honestly. A lot of people who share what I consider fairly decently core aspects of my being, or which are decent descriptors of me as a person (atheism, science enthused, STEM field, humanist, gamer, geek, young white male in the American sphere of influence) are like... Raging assholes. Libertarians (of the kooky variety) and GamerGaters, MRAs and anti-feminism. Just, giant raging cocks. People I have a notable dislike of!
And I honestly don't know how I lucked out. Only thing I can think of is the homosexuality, and even that's kind of a nebulous cloud of "eh?" Besides that, there's the thought process that the places I hang out on the internet helped with that, (namely, you guys. Bay12 was fairly formative to me and my opinions. Until you all turned into assholes and Russians <3) but then the question is, why did I come to bay12 and not, like... Reddit, or 4chan, or SomethingAwful, or any other wretched hive of scum and villainy? (well, I know the answer to that last one: I'm a cheap fucker.)
That's literally all I got. You guys and my love of cock and/or butts are literally the only reasons I can think of that prevented me from becoming a STEMlord. (that is a delightful portmanteau of STEM and shitlord.)
... It's kind of a disturbing thought.