This is NOT encouraging me to catch up on *my* ginormous backlog of unread child_lit digests.
So, speaking from a position of ignorance of the current child_lit dust-up (but familiarity with past ones) as well as pretty much total ignorance of the incidents in fandom you're thinking of, and to make a vast generalization... could it have something to do with age? Not that there aren't plenty of young people on child_lit and plenty of mature people in fandom, but the general impression is that the former would be an older community than the latter, on average. I'm trying not to be ageist (ugh, a phrase that usually precedes someone doing exactly that), but the longer you've had certain habits of thought, the harder it is to overcome them...? I wouldn't try very hard to defend it, but the thought did occur to me.
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So, speaking from a position of ignorance of the current child_lit dust-up (but familiarity with past ones) as well as pretty much total ignorance of the incidents in fandom you're thinking of, and to make a vast generalization... could it have something to do with age? Not that there aren't plenty of young people on child_lit and plenty of mature people in fandom, but the general impression is that the former would be an older community than the latter, on average. I'm trying not to be ageist (ugh, a phrase that usually precedes someone doing exactly that), but the longer you've had certain habits of thought, the harder it is to overcome them...? I wouldn't try very hard to defend it, but the thought did occur to me.