One of the things I love about fandom, actually, is how it connects me with women of so many different ages. My own mother is sixty-nine (or will be, in another two weeks) and I know we'll never relate as intimates -- but I get some of the pleasure I might have derived out of a mother/daughter relationship-of-equals, out of fandom instead. I suppose we're more like some kind of bizarre sorority or order of nuns than like mothers-and-daughters (if there were an order of nuns primarily focused around pretty men, creativity, and porn!) but still, sometimes these bonds feel oddly filial, and I like that.
Also, sometimes I envy people I know in fandom whose teenaged daughters are also in fandom. I like to imagine sometimes that if I ever have a kid and she winds up (inshallah) as geek-socialized as I am, I could bring her to cons someday and she wouldn't roll her eyes when her mother went off on tangents about gay bdsm. *g*
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Date: 2005-05-09 02:30 am (UTC)Also, sometimes I envy people I know in fandom whose teenaged daughters are also in fandom. I like to imagine sometimes that if I ever have a kid and she winds up (inshallah) as geek-socialized as I am, I could bring her to cons someday and she wouldn't roll her eyes when her mother went off on tangents about gay bdsm. *g*