Define: Fangirl
Jan. 17th, 2007 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleNext week is our statewide meeting at work, and we're continuing the diversity work we started at our meeting in August. One of the things we're going to do is an activity where we draw pictures about ways we've identified ourselves (amongst other things). One of the major ways I identify myself is as a fangirl.
I've been fretting about this ever since we decided that we would continue with some sort of getting to know you and your cultural identifications activity.
I do want to be honest about who I am. On the other hand, being a fangirl is the thing I'm most ridiculed for by my friends and family, and I don't want to open myself up for that from people who aren't people I love and have close personal relationships with.
The other reason I'm fretting is that I have no idea how to explain what "fangirl" means to people who don't know. The best I can usually come up with is, "I have Firefly and Buffy pictures on my living room walls and Harry Potter action figures on my bookshelves." I could really use a better explanation. Any ideas for how to draw "fangirl" would also help.
I've been fretting about this ever since we decided that we would continue with some sort of getting to know you and your cultural identifications activity.
I do want to be honest about who I am. On the other hand, being a fangirl is the thing I'm most ridiculed for by my friends and family, and I don't want to open myself up for that from people who aren't people I love and have close personal relationships with.
The other reason I'm fretting is that I have no idea how to explain what "fangirl" means to people who don't know. The best I can usually come up with is, "I have Firefly and Buffy pictures on my living room walls and Harry Potter action figures on my bookshelves." I could really use a better explanation. Any ideas for how to draw "fangirl" would also help.