In my opinion, fangirlism can get pretty scary sometimes...

My friend's friend is obsessed with Ed...

It's so annoying. *sigh*
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10. Fangirls are loud and often violent.
Ever witness the blowback from someone denigrating Ed in front of an Ed fangirl? Not pretty. [points to scar] I got this from when I told a certain someone that Abarai Renji looked gay with the eyebrow tattoos.
*cough*That'sfunny*cough* I think he's a pretty good character... But does he even have eyebrows? O.o (no offense)
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08. It leads to the creation of many, many, many bad fanfics.
Let's face it, 99% of the truly rabid fangirls just couldn't write to save their lives. At worst, they write in n00bspeak. At best, they include fanservice... FANSERVICE IN A FANWORK... WTF!?!?
That's.... sooooooo.... true.

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06. It inspires the creation of the horror known as Yaoi.
There's no Yaoi without fangirlism, and you damn well know it! And Yaoi doujins and fanfics are some of the worst abominations I've ever witnessed. Where the hell does one find the creative license to turn two [or more

] of SOMEONE ELSE's characters, who are obviously straight into raging butt pirates [not that there's anything wrong with that...], anyway? It's a complete perversion of the original creator's vision... Although...
Yaoi... is scary.

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03. It cheapens the medium.
Let's get serious for a moment. Would you want to live in a world where the only reason a movie like Rain Man is considered great is because it features a young and oh-so-dreamy Tom Cruise? Or a shitfest like Original Sin is deemed Oscar-worthy because of Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie's sex scene? Of course not! So why is it any different for anime? FMA is a great show because it's well-written and original, not because the hero is some teenager with long blond hair. Can the average fangirl even begin to grasp the complexity of the storyline of RahXephon? I doubt it.
02. It sets the bar too damn high!
Impressionable young girls drooling over men the likes of which are nonexistent in the real world. Not gonna lie to you, I feel threatened by this.
01. Detaches women from reality.
...I mean even more so than they already are.
Can't some people imagine though?