You are completely right, a lot of the opinions and the extremes expressed have crossed the line into bashing and some of it pisses me off. I just try to ignore it and concentrate on the parts of the fandom that aren't so horrible.
I guess I'm just used to it because I see it in a lot of fandoms. It seems that the fandoms that inspire the most passion (Harry Potter and Supernatural in particular besides Star Wars) also inspire the strongest opinions. And a lot of the extremes are just the loudest and manage to ruin things for everyone else and end up being nasty to the creators that gave us this stuff. But I don't think those fans are in the majority (even in Star Wars, while maybe dislike of the prequels is a majority opinion, bashing is not), and there are definitely other places in the fandom to go where discussions lean towards the things we love.
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Date: 2011-09-03 03:30 am (UTC)I guess I'm just used to it because I see it in a lot of fandoms. It seems that the fandoms that inspire the most passion (Harry Potter and Supernatural in particular besides Star Wars) also inspire the strongest opinions. And a lot of the extremes are just the loudest and manage to ruin things for everyone else and end up being nasty to the creators that gave us this stuff. But I don't think those fans are in the majority (even in Star Wars, while maybe dislike of the prequels is a majority opinion, bashing is not), and there are definitely other places in the fandom to go where discussions lean towards the things we love.