Fanboys: It's now official -- half of them are girls!

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Old stereotypes die hard. You may think you already know that fanboy culture includes a heck of a lot of girls. Read the full post.

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Sarah El
Mon 10/26/09 5:42 PM

It’s funny. I never thought I was a “fangirl” until I grew up and realized that not all of my friends knew the entire James Bond film library, had played with Batman or Star Wars action figures throughout their youth, or didn’t like action movies. I am still surprised to this day when I meet anyone who hasn’t seen Star Wars. I simply gape and then thrust my DVDs at them. And the fun part is that it’s my mother, not my father, who got me and my brother interested in all the nerdy things we like. My dad can’t stand Bond, Batman, or pretty much anything science fiction or comic-y. Go fangirls!

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- Sarah El
  Mon 10/26/09 5:45 PM
  
  But then, to add to this, there is still not this specifically “clear” distinction between being interested in nerdy things and “normal” things. To counterbalance my Star Wars Heroes and Villains playing cards, my Pokemon game boy games, and my four seasons of Battlestar Galactica (including a girl crush on Tricia Helfer that could rival any straight male’s attraction toward her), I have a drawer of nail polish, a bucket full of high heels, and did indeed set up very intricate stations for my Barbie dolls in my childhood. I enjoy the growing nerd culture without throwing away more “traditional” behaviors for a girl like me.
  
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Jennie
Mon 10/26/09 5:58 PM

Um, no, Owen, J.Lo was NOT the reason girls were in the theater for The Cell! It really surprises me that Hollywood PTBs STILL can’t wrap their heads around the idea that women are diverse and enjoy myriad forms of entertainment–some women enjoy romcoms, some women enjoy good romcoms, some women enjoy good romcoms AND good fangirl/fanboy stuff. I fall into the latter category. I’ll basically watch just about anything–if it’s GOOD. You won’t find me at a torture porn screening any sooner than you’ll find me at The Ugly Truth. Yet I was just as enamored with Star Trek as I was with (500) Days of Summer, just as in love with The Dark Knight as I was with Waitress. I love Superbad, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Role Models, and The Hangover, too–all traditionally billed as gross-out “boy” humor, but I laughed so hard I cried at certain points during those movies. Only one I didn’t go for was Knocked Up–not because I dislike Katherine Heigl, but because they got her character SO WRONG. Where Catherine Keener’s character was awesome and well rounded in 40-Year Old Virgin, almost like it had been written by a women, Heigl’s character in Knocked Up was more of a male fantasy and it was more clear that it was coming from a male perspective, because as a woman, I could just sort of “tell” that something was real about her. Hollywood PTBs also like to assume that women go because of a female star (like you assuming J.Lo was the pull for The Cell), but believe you me, eye candy is a big, big pull. Hello–Star Trek starred Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. Swoon! But the real reason I enjoyed that movie was because it was good. I liked District 9, too, and there wasn’t exactly a whole lot of eye candy going on there. I think the vastly male-run Hollywood just needs to understand women better, and the fact that women are extremely diverse in their tastes. You’ll find some women just as often at a sci-fi or action adventure movie as you would at a romcom; can you say the same for men?

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Jennie
Mon 10/26/09 5:59 PM

Huh. Sorry for the sort-of duplicate reply. Safari told me my comment didn’t go through, but here it is on IE. Apologies!

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uggsale
Wed 11/30/11 5:52 AM

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