Bill Roper's Journal

Part of the problem with the greying of fandom is that an interest in SF/Fantasy is no longer a good marker for fannish. And we haven't figured out a fix to our filters.

I'm not claiming that because you're primarily interested in anime or TV or movies you're aren't a fan. I am claiming that an interest in any of those is insufficient evidence that you're a fan.

This is not an original diagnosis by me - I ran across it somewhere on the web a couple of years ago, and immediately agreed with it. Unfortunately, I haven't come up with, or heard of, a solution to the problem.