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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2015-16 Season

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Perhaps I'll be the only person in here to mention it but I really don't like that we name missing Hanyu a disease of any sort. Seriously. I find it very uncomfortable to read all the comments that include his name into a syndrom abbreviations. There are many people who suffer from different health conditions, some of them may be visiting or posting in his Fan Fest. Can we stop calling our fan obsession disease names? I find it disrespectful and annoying.
 
Sorrento said:
Perhaps I'll be the only person in here to mention it but I really don't like that we name missing Hanyu a disease of any sort. Seriously. I find it very uncomfortable to read all the comments that include his name into a syndrom abbreviations. There are many people who suffer from different health conditions, some of them may be visiting or posting in his Fan Fest. Can we stop calling our fan obsession disease names? I find it disrespectful and annoying.
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You are taking it way too seriously. I'm sure any of us here mean to be disrespectful.
 
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hey, if we take this kind of logic, then all the songs using lines like "I'm mad about you/her/him" are disrespectful to people suffering from mental disease.
all people mean is that we miss Yuzuru and our wait is going to be a long one. We're worried about what's going on - his loss at the Worlds, his injury etc. So letting people alleviate their anxiety through humour (by calling it a withdrawal syndrome) is OK, as far as I'm concerned. Words don't mean that much once you can get into the emotions which underlie them.
 
Fayruza said:
hey, if we take this kind of logic, then all the songs using lines like "I'm mad about you/her/him" are disrespectful to people suffering from mental disease.
all people mean is that we miss Yuzuru and our wait is going to be a long one. We're worried about what's going on - his loss at the Worlds, his injury etc. So letting people alleviate their anxiety through humour (by calling it a withdrawal syndrome) is OK, as far as I'm concerned. Words don't mean that much once you can get into the emotions which underlie them.
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Let's not mix songs and real injuries and imaginative deseases. If we can explain our feelings in simple words and not name our state as a terminal one then it's not only logic but also ethical. Yes, I don't find any humor in inventing deseases connected to being a fan of anyone.
I do not expect everyone to share my viewpoint on this matter but I do believe that we can think about it at least and try to respect each other without pointing fingers and giving names.
 
You can't stop others doing and saying what you don't like, eh? You can waste your time preaching about it and trying to police us, for sure - but that greatly increases your chances of being ignored. Now you're free to choose and pick which you prefer.

I do find this new 'disease' quite funny - it shows people can take their own fandom with some detachment and fun and humour. It doesn't turn Yuzuru Hanyu into a dangerous drug or infection or anything, in fact, it doesn't suggest anything bad about him - he remains just as great as ever. so what's the big deal about 'invented illnesses'?
 
I cant push:"ignore" someone because I am tooooooo curious. Everyone of you gives me something to think about.
 
Fayruza said:
You can't stop others doing and saying what you don't like, eh? You can waste your time preaching about it and trying to police us, for sure - but that greatly increases your chances of being ignored.
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I do not fear this. As long as I am free to voice my opinion on what I find important I'm gonna do that. I don't find desease jokes decent. Life and health are my top values. That's where I stand.
And I'd like to end the discussion here.
 
Methaphorical use of the language is a part of the language itself, anyone may like or dislike a methaphorical expression, it's just a matter of taste , life and health are everybody's top values.
 
Sorrento said:
I do not fear this. As long as I am free to voice my opinion on what I find important I'm gonna do that. I don't find desease jokes decent. Life and health are my top values. That's where I stand.
And I'd like to end the discussion here.
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Surprise, surprise, a lion's share of people's jokes are going to concern things they care most about, what they fear most. That's a psychological fact - humour is a way to cope with a harsh reality sometimes - so why deprive people of it?
and unless you can produce a person really suffering from this invented disease of IHYS, your concerns about someone being offended are somewhat ungrounded. So my madness analogy also stands - by your logic, people using the phrase 'I'm mad about someone' don't show concern to mentally disturbed people. and moreover, there exist some mental diseases people suffer from - and there no real IHYS patients in the registries of any medical institution.
 
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