THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. LOUD REPOST.

btw guys this speech is a ted talk done by yve blake! she has a musical about fangirls and the whole thing is abt how in awe she is about fangirls

Omg tysm that is so cool ill look into it !!!!

and mind you, there are more fights during and outside a football game than at a concert

drunk football fans are way scarier than fangirls are portrayed to be, i've never seen fangirls vandalise a city just because their fave team lost

carolina i genuinely started crying like actual tears came out of my eyes thank you for sharing this. fandom culture quite literally saved my life and is now currently keeping me going. let's celebrate it. "we can die tomorrow, so why not love things while we're still breathing?"

because the world still hates seeing women happy, as exaggerated as it sounds, that's just it

@uarmymusee Brave of them all to assume we all are “teenage girls” when literally we have wrestlers, doctors, scientists, lawyers,artists, and what not among us.

There's a hell of a load of difference between a parasocial relationship with the Currently Trending Person and the familial bond or sense of community that makes you love a club

You get the sense of community from being in a fandom too!! It is ultimately the same thing. Groups of people who all like the same thing in one place bonding over the thing

The video you posted isn't about fandoms, its about fangirls

@heartsfordnp fandoms are and always have been carried by the fangirls within them

@heartsfordnp Sure, but it still aint about fandoms. If i dislike the topping on a pizza doesn't mean I'm talking about the entire pizza

@cityofediting @heartsfordnp Just because you don't like part of the pizza doesn't mean it's still pizza 💀

@cityofediting @heartsfordnp Yeah, but this ain't originally about fandoms 😭😭

OMG THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT IM DOING MY DISSERTATION ON

HELL YEAHHHHH

might cry yes it’s that deep

I saw this edit as well. it is so beautifully done. fangirls are the backbone of the whole entire entertainment industry. without fangirls, we wouldn’t have any of this. to hate on fangirls is simply just misogynistic, there isn’t any other thing to it.

mind you, domestic violence skyrockets during superbowl, but that's what's normalized 🤡

we could cry over a sport too actually and still be called crazy 😭

Real just let people enjoy themselves regardless of the gender or hobby/interest id rather a guy or girl cry at a concert or football match than be fake nonchalant cus thats bullshit I love to see people show emotion

They want us to behave like this

it’s always men, im so sick of them

Theres a book called Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert you might like

Wow the narrator got a little too dramatic for me at the end,I get the message though

Louder🙌

I'm sorry i'm all for women empowerment but what kind of victimization is this? First off that poor journalist is not insulting women in the slightest, if anything it's a compliment, and it's backed up by historical data. Do you know who started the alcohol prohibition in US?

EXCELLENT comparison, history lesson, cultural and gender appreciation! Love 💕 is just love💜

haven't seen anything so corny like this in a while

Oh the way i was slut shame by my classmates when i was just 13 a freaking teenager and also made fun of byy my bengali teacher I'll never forget that...how i started to bunk my tuition because I can't able to take all off these... still i hold onto BTS no matter what they said

This hit WAYYYY too close to home

@glindafiedkiwi Que hace Bryan skabeche ahi

I'm about to cru

@Teteyeui The chills i got—-

The beatles mentioned

!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s sad to know there will never be anything this big for a girl group. Teenage girls love boy bands, and men just aren't into girl groups.

oh yve blake my beloved 🩷

as someone who is part of a music fandom and football fandom. Football twitter is quite literally stan twitter

If we want to sing "still life" with Big Bang, and they want to #ynwa at Anfield, why the smirks at the former and smiles at the latter?

Not the same… for the game… not for the person, for the game 😤

@Cookymonsteerr Fearing the power of women and truckloads of patriarchy & misogyny are at the root of this double standard.

@5laurie8 🌹🌹♥️♥️