“It is inappropriate now to make fun of girls for screaming or boy bands for existing or anybody for liking anything. [... But] Not all women are "our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents," I would love to tell Harry Styles. Not all women keep the world going! And it is not, in fact, okay to like whatever you want. Some stuff is genuinely bad, like Mark Zuckerberg or the Harry Styles song "Woman.” WomenFeminismSocial MediaOnlineFandomBoy Bands Book:Everything I Need I Get from You Source: Everything I Need I Get from You
“[Fandom] should be celebrated for what it can provide in individual lives, but it should also be taken seriously for what it can do at scale - not because I like it or because being a girl is cool now, but because fans are connecting based on affinity and instinct and participating in hyperconnected networks that they built for one purpose but can use for many others. We need to know what fandom can do and what it can't, and we need to figure out who might try to manipulate it and why.” WomenInternetOnlineFandomNetworks Book:Everything I Need I Get from You Source: Everything I Need I Get from You
“There have been so many calls for empathy, inspection, and nuanced understanding on behalf of the angry men the internet has raised, but there have been far fewer for the fangirls whose beliefs are far more convoluted.” InternetSocial MediaOnlineFandomEcho Chamber Book:Everything I Need I Get from You Source: Everything I Need I Get from You