But this isn’t just about Twilight. Most recently, it’s been seen with the One Direction movie, where the bashing of the movie and its fans was out in force. Again, I’m not blind: I see some of the comments coming from One Direction fans to those who criticise the band, and they’re sometimes no better. I’m not defending those at all. Two wrongs certainly don’t come close to making a right there.

What about, though, the ire aimed at some female teenage Doctor Who fans for being unhappy with the casting of Peter Capaldi in the show, which again was in marked contrast to that that male fan would get?

But then, in a really good piece at Whovian Feminism, they argue there that “I’ve seen more people complaining about how heterosexual teenage girls are complaining about Peter Capaldi’s casting because he isn’t a young man onto which they can project their sexual fantasies then I’ve actually seen heterosexual teenage girls making that complaint. It seems to me that this ‘problem’ has been widely blown out of proportion”. I can only add anecdotal evidence to that, but my findings – save for one YouTube video – are the same.

Let’s pick another example. Sherlock has attracted an enthusiastic and sizeable female fandom too. The outside assumption is that every woman who loves Sherlock instantly wants to have wild and passionate sex with Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman/Una Stubbs. And they may well do. But that they might just really love the show seems an alien concept in some quarters.

A Den Of Geek correspondent went along to a Sherlock press event earlier in the year, where she found herself talking to a journalist from a respected (well, less respected by us now) daily newspaper. “You must be a Cumberbitch”, said the male journalist in question, pretty much his opening line. Our correspondent, as it turned out, has read all of the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories many times, has always loved the material, and now has her fandom denigrated down to three syllables that trivialise just what she’s got out of the stories. Mind you, even if she hadn’t, does that make it right that someone can call her a ‘Cumberbitch’ within a sentence of meeting her? Is it inconceivable that not every human being is comfortable with that phrase?