Twilight “Haters”: A Response to My Last Post
January 16th, 2010 | Jonathan Gray
My last post was about Avatar haters and the pleasures of their hate, but here’s a wonderful clip playing another type of anti-fandom, namely fraudulent anti-fandom:
Jonathan,
Thanks for posting this–I hadn’t seen it yet. What really strikes me about the Twilight anti-fandom (and your example demonstrates it clearly) is the way derogatory references to gender and sexuality (particularly feminine and queer references) are used to denounce the books and movies.