R2s Muse wrote...
But that's just the thing... the fans don't even venture in there anymore, and if we do, it's rarely to talk about Cullen. We rarely even rally to defend him anymore. It's so ridiculous. There was a similar DA confession about it yesterday. Don't want to hear about Cullen? Don't go into a thread that talks about him. Don't want to hear about Cullen? Don't make a thread about him (even peripherally).berelinde wrote...
That's really what's happening now. Of course people are sick of hearing about Cullen. I'd be sick of hearing about him too if I had to listen to whining about him and everybody who likes him all day long.SamaraDraven wrote...
That is the funny part. That they're annoying themselves is priceless. It's like asking "What's the big deal with wine? I don't like wine," until they're so sick of hearing about why people like wine that when someone finally does make a reasonable request for it, they go apesh!t. The problem I have is that they're intent on spreading the erroneous concept that *WE* never shut up about him and over time, others have adopted this attitude. I can't tell you how glad I am that DG flat out said we hardly make noise about him and it's the haters who say more. Most of the time, I let it roll off my back but I was particularly peeved because the most recent thread was addressed more to our supposed fangirly behavior than to their opinion of Cullen. I feel like they're beating themselves up over it and then lynching us for the self-flagellation.
I read an interesting article yesterday about the backlash against Twilight fangirls that had similar overtones to the hate we get about being Cullen fans. Like it or hate it, Twilight has established that there actually does exist a market of women who want media directed at them. Yet, part of the Twilight hate seems directed at these very women just for... liking what they like. Sorta like what we see from Cullen haters who invariably talk about his fans instead of him.
Exactly. Hardly anyone even mentions him unless directly asked. It's the people that dislike him who are making thread after sh!tty thread about him.
... In fact, the only thread any of us have made about Cullen (aside from this one) was when R2 asked a question about him when the DA3 thread first opened and that got locked minutes later by evil Chris.
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Anyhoo, I'm over it now. Though my desire to start a DA3 thread about him still remains... 
At first I wanted to just slap one up there to be spiteful but since I've calmed down, I'm trying to think of a way to make the topic interesting so that it might not get locked...? We'll see. 
