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and, increasingly in the mainstream , we’re able to see ourselves in horror outside of the monster that needs to be taken down or that’s terrorizing “innocent” people. In a way, horror lets marginalized fans reclaim and redefine what it means to be a monster in a world that has already decided that we’re monstrous because of who we are.”, explains that horror media and fandom have positives and negatives for marginalized fans.
“In terms of the pros, horror has always been a genre where the difficult can be addressed. Whether it's racism, xenophobia, sexism, just any sort of taboo topic in society, the basics of asking each other, ‘why would somebody be a serial killer?’ ‘Why would somebody hurt someone else in such a way?” Horror is the place where we can explore that and sort of feel safe in doing so.
Larsen notes that it’s not all good: “It's like any fandom. There are communities, there are traditions, both good and bad, and there is still, I think, a pretty big stereotype that horror fandom is primarily male. At least, horror film fandom in the US and the UK seems to still represent itself as an old boys club, which it's really not.
Horror fandom and media have also become a safe space or secondary home to fans during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of their focus on horror and the time they spent engaging with the frightful, some researchers have come to suspect that horror fandom has allowed some fans of the genre to be
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