halfhardtorock:

dirkar:

I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.

Fandom wank was almost always about personal vendettas and cattiness tho. Id really hate to see discussions about fandom racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia being minimized and misrepresented as masturbatory/wanky/catty.