yep exactly, it triggered my bullshit detector and he absolutely didnt convince me that he had done the research to properly lay the groundwork for his assertions at the start, so i decided it was a more productive use of my time to read something else instead, i dont think thats an unreasonable thing to do at all. and that something else at the time happened to be fanon, which did not trigger my bullshit detector (despite also not being written in a conventional western academic style)

is my detector faulty? maybe, but theres a million bits of theory to read so im gonna read the ones that seem like theyve done their homework instead. i havent read all the theory and neither has anyone else, we all have to make judgements on which theory is worth our time. im making no judgements on the concepts in it cos i didnt even get that far, im saying "he did a shit job of convincing me it was worth reading further instead of reading something else"