There's science fiction and fantasy fandom (which excludes commonly-slashed things like House), there's Western media fandom, there's comics fandom (which may or may not include anime and manga depending on how you slice it), there's fandom-as-the-stuff-that-my-greater-circle-of-friends-are-fannish-about, there's anime and manga fandom, and goodness knows what fannish groups I'm not even thinking of.

I have a personal blind spot a mile wide about anime and manga fandom, despite being into Death Note and Trigun and having had anime and manga fannish roommates, and I'm still examining why this is. I'm wondering if for me it's not that in my high school the anime and manga fandom was very much a boys' club, my best friend the anime fan is male, and my perception of "Fandom" is a female space.

I don't want that blind spot to get echoed in the survey.