To participate in fandom is to, increasingly, necessarily have some sort of opinion on something you've probably never thought about, to admit to some sort of original sin for your cultural biases, your subtle linguistic racism, and hell, at its foundations, who knows, maybe all that shit is valid. I've read good arguments that have been convincing, if obnoxious, on the subject. But that's not what a lot of people signed up for.

Thank you for that.

I'm grateful for all the ways I've been educated by fandom (fandom practically raised me). But quite plainly, I'm risking my emotional and mental wellbeing if I try to be actively involved in these kind of volatile discussions.
The only -ism I can afford Fandom to be is escapism.