Article re: obsessional fannishness

[pegkerr]

From Arts and Letters Daily:

The geek shall inherit the earth. Well, let us hope not. The truth is that most sci fi and fantasy fans are infantile, escapist people, as shallow as they are socially inept... more

.Well, isn't that . . . acerbic. And from someone who counts himself (herself?) a fantasy fan, too. (See, e.g., the author’s defense of Tolkien--which admittedly doesn’t particularly plow any new ground at all.) However, it does touch upon something I’ve been thinking about myself lately, about the difficulty of managing (and perhaps dubious usefulness) of some of my obsessional jags.

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[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

I fail to understand her underlying assumption. She seems worried that SF fans cut themselves off from the real world, which is not something I see happening.

Does she not see the non-fans who cut themselves off from the real world with their escapist obsession over celebrities and Reality TV?