What's rather nice - and must be confusing for the h8ers - is that RTD apologised for any upset his comments caused and told online fans he respects them. (Which is actually probably true for the majority of it!)
It's interesting, in the light of that, to reconsider his remark: "People often say, 'Fans have got their knives out!' They haven't got any knives. I haven't been stabbed. It's simply a few people typing." Naturally, fans read this as dismissive, but I think it can also be read as a defence of fandom from the outside perception that we're hysterical nutters.
Similarly, he's not taking the chanting and whatever as intimidating or insulting, but as what it ought to be (and what I hope it is in many, many cases): an expression not of hate, but of love.
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:42 am (UTC)It's interesting, in the light of that, to reconsider his remark: "People often say, 'Fans have got their knives out!' They haven't got any knives. I haven't been stabbed. It's simply a few people typing." Naturally, fans read this as dismissive, but I think it can also be read as a defence of fandom from the outside perception that we're hysterical nutters.
Similarly, he's not taking the chanting and whatever as intimidating or insulting, but as what it ought to be (and what I hope it is in many, many cases): an expression not of hate, but of love.