Fandom could “easily be accommodated” in the home, and had a low barrier to entry—anybody with a bedroom, a record player, access to magazines and to a social circle of similarly interested girls could participate. It was low-risk, and though it was set up around highly manufactured pop acts and commercial products, it was low supervision and therefore freeing. The theorists called it “a meaningful reaction against the selective and authoritarian structures which control the girls’ lives at school.”
