The writer of that hypothesis comes off as a fandom noob or a student desperate for help on her paper. It also sounds as though the writer is an academic type 'slumming' in fandom and is shocked to find that they don't appreciate her genius deconstruction.*
*Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Then again, I've seen enough 'slumming' on the part of academic strivers to get suspicious when I see something as simplistic as this hypothesis pop up.
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Date: 23 May 2010 04:30 am (UTC)*Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Then again, I've seen enough 'slumming' on the part of academic strivers to get suspicious when I see something as simplistic as this hypothesis pop up.