(Like when they want to know everything about their favourite actor/actress/whatever and so they bitch about their idol's love interests, like: "I don't believe that bitch is so lucky to be with *insert name* It's too good for her!" Like they actually even know the person behind the persona!)

Ten years ago I was a mod on a forum/board for a fan of a celebrity who got remarried and HOLY SWEET POTATOES - not so much on our board (we monitored it very carefully) but in the general fandom there was an incredible amount of "how dare he marry her!" All of it coming from women I may add. Like YOU ever had a chance with him, lady? *shakes head*

But there is this insatiable need to be "intimate" with our idols - to possess them, but also to feel elevated by them somehow. Perhaps on some level we're using them to fill the hole left by the belief in gods. But we forget they are human beings who fuck up like everyone else and have the same wants and needs as the rest of us.

I think it's important to speak so openly and bravely about homosexuality, especially in a society that still censures it.
Also true about men wearing feminine things/make up. Some people are still making a big deal about pink shirts! Because true men are nothing like women.

Just YES to every word of this.