No, I think that's showing a complete lack of self-identity and a level of patheticness (is that even a word?) previously unheard of.
No worries on the cons, though. She never attended any conventions and likely has no plans to ever do so.
--JMH
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "inkwell_01" <inkwell_01@...> wrote:
>
> >"Take a wild, friggin guess" wrote:
> >To be quite honest, she was rather weirded out about
> >some of the people in the fandom, the odd fetishes
> >and the folks who mistook a genre about cartoon
> >animal people and turned it into a lifestyle or fetish.
>
> Then she best stay away from Star Trek and Star Wars
> conventions/fans.
>
> Some fans get married dressed up as Klingons speaking
> Klingonese no less.(It's an actual language now. Sorry,
> no Vulcanian as far as I know.)
>
> Some, I believe, live as "Klingons" all year around.
>
> Now that's taking a genre to the nth degree!
>
Received on Sat Jun 06 2009 - 00:50:21 CDT