Fandom Politics Poll

[serpentclara]

So I've taken up fandom analysis as a hobby, and I'm back with another poll to satisfy my endless curiosity. This time, I'm trying to determine whether there is a correlation between people's choice of fandoms and OTPs and their political preferences.

Poll Fandom PoliticsComments are welcome, but please do try to stay on topic, i.e. political preferences in relation

Comments

[aloysiusweasley]

Whoops - I feel like such a go 'tard, I though "fandom" was just referring to HP....sleepy mind didn't expand on it any further... :)
But I felt bound to report my other fandoms, just because I'm a PIA: Crossing Jordan (Jordan/Woody), CSI, Law and Order SVU (Stabler/Benson), Inuyasha (Inuyasha/Kagome), and that's about all I can think of at the moment. :)

And what's a "ticky box??"

[serpentclara]

HP is the only fandom I write in, so, in my mind, they are often synonymous too.

And what's a "ticky box??"

I'm not sure, actually, but it's considered kind of fashionable to have one in your poll. Seriously, I think it's used for statistical purposes, i.e. to count the total number of people who voted in the poll, but that only works if you make it a one-option question. Which defies whole point of 'question' ...

[aloysiusweasley]

Exactly! I'm sticking with HP, especially after I heard the funny things they do to the LotR characters in their fandoms...

[maddyriddle]

Usually it's a no-question that allows you to go wild clicking all the boxes available. It's for those people that vote just because they are attracted to clickable things.
I like them, they are fun.

[morgynleri]

As I said with OTPs... should list my response here, 'cause it gets too long otherwise... though I don't tend to go for any such, more just what I don't like. Huh. Same response as how I vote... easier for me to say which one I don't like more than which candidate I like. Since I rarely like any of them... Anyway

[morgynleri]

Ok, and forgot one, because the muse is being a pain in the arse... Angel/Buffy fandom, no OTP, but am highly biased towards Spike/OFC, with a side of Buffy and Angel gone bye-bye.

[serpentclara]

Oh my! Well, that's something, that's for sure. ;) I think you have more favourite pairings than anyone else I've met in fandom.

[morgynleri]

*blinks* Whee!

Heh. I think the reason I like so many is I rarely have a bias against any particular pairing... with some exceptions which usually involve disliking the hero-type character, so disliking any pairing with said character...

Re: here from the Snitch

[serpentclara]

Maybe I should have called 'ticky circle' instead, but the thing is, I had to put in one radio-style question so that I can deduce how many people answered the poll. :)

[serpentclara]

Ah, but I need to practice my math lest I forget all these formulas I spent nights trying to memorise at school!

[moreteadk]

Hi *waves* Surfed in from daily_snitch to vote in your poll. Interesting subject. :)

[serpentclara]

Yes, very interesting. Thanks. :)

[purple_ladybug1]

So...apparently most fandomers are left in the political spectrum.

[serpentclara]

As I suspected. I'm somewhat curious why, though.

[aldebaran1977]

Well, for Harry Potter (and probably a lot of ther fandoms) it`s obvious: If you didn`t read the books because they promote witchcraft and God wouldn`t like that, you won`t write or read stories which are based on those books.

And for slashers: If you are a religious fanatic or just a homophobic arse, you won`t read slash and won`t vote for people who want to legalize / legalized gay marriage! (And as slashers usually write the most interesting stories... ;-))

[serpentclara]

You're presupposing that everyone who doesn't vote left is a religious fanatic or a homophobic arse, which isn't the case - there are some gay people in the US Republican party, for instance. But this is interesting: if fandom was representative of the general population, all of our countries would have left-wing governments.