Of course it does since such a huge part of our minds are based on imagination.
Realistically you will never bone an actor, or ever get to meet Brad Pitt or president Obama or any other famous person, and everybody is aware of this, but in our minds we still relate to them, we judge them compared to ourselves and our own experiences and ordinary lives, and we pretend and imagine, and in our minds we put them in a context that relates to ourselves personally. This happens automatically and instinctively. We're all split personalities (the vast majority of people).
I read that thread, and while I like to believe that I don't care a rats ass about Ellen Page I insitictively went through the same reaction ("oh no, she's out of reach from my weaner now"), in a childish, superficial but instinctive way.
