Love/Hate

Why Do We Watch Things We Hate?

In a new book, scholars unpack the idea of anti-fandom, from ‘Star Wars’ to Martha Stewart to Hillary Clinton

Anna Peele
GEN
Published in
8 min readDec 14, 2018

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InIn case you didn’t notice, people seem pretty angry lately. There’s the vitriol you see printed on T-shirts and chanted at Trump rallies and the “Can you believe he said that?” tweets and…

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Anna Peele
GEN
Writer for

Anna has written for The Washington Post Magazine, ESPN the Magazine, GQ, and Esquire. She lives in New York. @bananapeele + annapeele.com