# What is ASSUMED about your fandom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669 "2008-04-02T13:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/41 "2008-04-03T20:22:55Z")
As a Disney fan, more specifically as a fan of the Disney shorts, it’s assumed that I think all of them are a laugh riot and that they are all better than Warner or even Fleicher cartoons of the same era. Nope … some are just barely watchable; I hate the way Donald Duck got to be a one trick pony and I wish they had let Mickey stay more of the loveable scoundrel that he was in the early years. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/42 "2008-04-03T20:34:55Z")
[QUOTE=Tenebras] [Perry Mason] So, you admit that you’ve worn eyeliner and greasepaint? [/Perry Mason] [/QUOTE] ..but, in my defence, never both at the same time! Oh and thirding what **Spoons** said. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/43 "2008-04-03T20:40:37Z")
That as a Pencil and Paper Roleplaying Gamer, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Comic Book, MMORPG, fan I’m some kind of nerd. [snort] If you’ll excuse me I’m halfway through reading a slash fiction where Picard and Razorbeak totally get it on. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/44 "2008-04-03T21:52:34Z")
Being a female anime fan, I have observed that most female anime fans believe a male character’s default sexuality is gay. Or if they had a canon relationship with a woman, that they were either confused then, or bi with severe gay leanings. This is not really a problem, except when you have every single Gundam Wing male character paired off with each other. Not even one token heterosexual relationship. Or a womanizing character with a 100:1 yaoi:het fanfic ratio. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/45 "2008-04-03T22:08:00Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] I have heard of that team. In the UK it’s pronounced “Manchester United” or just Scum for short 🙂 [/QUOTE] Except for around school playgrounds, where a bulk of a certain age react amusingly to a wind-up of ‘Chelsea…United? That’s who you support?’ ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/46 "2008-04-04T01:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] That all Thundercats fans are furries That all furries are perverts (it’s not about sex, dammit! It’s about liking a certain genre that just happens to _also_ attract a bunch of really screwed up people) . [/QUOTE] So you’re NOT a fursuiting pervert? Um, you should probably just delete my e-mail without looking at the attached jpegs. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/47 "2008-04-04T05:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] So you’re NOT a fursuiting pervert? Um, you should probably just delete my e-mail without looking at the attached jpegs. [/QUOTE] I’m too POOR to be a fursuiter. The other one I can’t argue with. _shrug_ It’s not furry related - I think it’s genetic. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669/48 "2008-04-04T05:52:42Z")
As a horror movie fan, it’s usually assumed I’m a guy (no), a Satan whorshipper (what?!) and only into what I watch for the blood and gore. Although I can enjoy a good ol’ Giallo with the best of them, I like my films a bit more morally subjective, plot-driven and subtle than that. Oh, there’s also the belief that I’m prone to violence myself. Bwahahaha! I have a hard time killing flies. Anyway… I’m more of a **Clockwork** fan or the newer (well, within the last decade), more thought-provoking works of say something like **Ravenous**. The fanboys can keep **Freddie Vs. Jason** and Troma fare. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-assumed-about-your-fandom/443669.md?page=2)