It's a gross understatement when a fangirl or fanboy says that he/she is protective of his/her favourite actor/actress...in fact, it is at least borderline obsessive.
When an actor or a singer or a professional athlete has found their soulmate, we as fans should embrace it and be happy for them. It is increasingly difficult in this day and age to find that one person we were meant to be with, especially for celebrities.
Granted, there would be a lot of disappointed fans when engagement announcements are posted and circulated around the internet because it is difficult to fantasize about another person's soon-to-be spouse. There are some fangirls/fanboys who are obsessively happy about their favourite celebrity celebrating such a big milestone...but it sounds so sweet that it appears insincere.
Others take on a more frightful, insidious behaviour. Known significant others of certain actors and actresses have been harassed and are dealing with death threats. Seriously? Death threats?
In this world, what gives fans the right to attack the one person a celebrity has chosen to settle down with? Are they so deluded that they thought that there was an actual chance that they would meet and marry their obsession someday?
We as fans do not have to like the person they chose to settle down with but we have to respect the decision. There's nothing we can do about it. Although we hold a special place in a celebrity's heart as his/her loyal fans, we do not have the power to change minds and we do not have the right to dictate who a celebrity can or cannot marry.
What's worse is that fans are grouped, as a whole, into one category of fans by the media. Not every single fan is going to cry if Tom Hiddleston settles down and gets married. Not every fan died of a broken heart when Benedict Cumberbatch announced his engagement. I don't belong to that group of "Cumberb**ches" or any group for that matter. I am a solitary fan who refuses to label herself like the fangirls and fanboys do. So to say that fans like me are brokenhearted that Benedict has found someone to be with for the rest of his life is a generalized lie.
Marriage and children are facts of life. We go through it as normal human beings. Aren't celebrities human beings? Don't they deserve happiness?
Apparently some fangirls and fanboys don't agree. That's why they hack into the phones of the significant others and send death threats to them because, in their deranged world, the celebrity belongs to them...
News flash: PEOPLE AREN'T POSSESSIONS!!!
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