I just realized--I mean, it finally really hit me-- how batshit crazy fandom is.  I guess that's by design-- I mean, you don't spend hours of your life talking to people you don't know about things none of you understand if you're wholly sane.  I think that any participant in fandom probably has a tenuous relationship with reality, and of course I include myself in that.

However, I have never been, nor will I ever be, abusive to another member of my fandom purely to be a bully.  I might disagree with someone, question their tactics of argument (it often seems like most people here forget how to objectively argue a point without abusing the person making it), wonder at the purpose of it all.  I might express malcontent with an element of the show or something a member of TPTB said.  I have never viciously attacked anyone online--in or out of fandom-- the way a frightening number of people in the House/Wilson comm seem to do as a matter of sport.

That's because I am capable of remembering that there are, in fact, other human beings on the other end of the series of tubes known as the internet.  Yes, you can be hateful here.  Yes, it's anonymous.  No, you're not required to conform to anyone's standard of ethics, morals, or polite behavior.  No, the internet itself is not "srs bsns".  Being cruel is.

But that, like everything else on my livejournal, is an expression of-- you guessed it-- my opinion!  So you're free to disagree, as ever.  Me, I'm going to get a life, or rather, reclaim the pretty kickass one I already have.  The one I don't need to substitute or enhance with fandom if fandom is no longer the fun enterprise it once was for me.  And hey, getting a life?  For all you people who consider insulting and bullying one another a pastime, I deeply recommend it.