You know, I can't help but wonder if the sort of fandom purity politics (which seem to be mostly of a sexual nature) is at all related to more general sexual purity politics like I grew up with in the South, only wearing a left-wing hat?

Just instead of, "if you like this, you're impure in God's eyes," it's, "if you like this, you're impure in humanity's eyes."

And it's super weird seeing this topsy-turvy land? But it has the similar justifications--that your sexual actions are still "pure" as long as you give the correct tortured justification ("it as just anal!" or "it's really a good guy!") And the rules of what is pure or not similarly changes from group to group.

I don't know. This stuff is on my mind lately.

--Rogan