Tag: the world

What should fandom do about the hatred Amanda receives on twitter, aside from feeling guilty and sad about the position she’s in? I’m seriously so frustrated by this. There’s literally nothing we can do, and in the meantime everyone gets the impression that fandom is full of crazy, hateful, overall bad people. Shippers especially get a bad rap. Do we monitor her twitter feed and harass the people who harass her 24/7?

Fandom and shippers get a bad rap because that’s ‘crazy women’ acting ‘crazy.’ That’s been…

Read More

I’m the anon with the manslaughter. First of all, thank you for your long reply. I used the term because I’m from Germany where you distinguish between “Mord” (kill s.o. with malicious intent, requires planning beforehand/trying to hide the deed afterwards) and “Totschlag” (intentional homicide usually in the heat of the moment) which resulted in “manslaughter” according to wikipedia.

Ahhhhhhh, that explains it! In the US, Mord translates to 1st degree murder, and Totschlag…

Read More