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Sep. 2nd, 2003 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsWell my plans to just sit and enjoy some quality time online have been soured after reading the posts in the latest anti slash kerfuffle.
I swear some people are nuts. Anti slash icons, do they really thing it'll make a difference? Also, does every person that bashes slash have to say that they know someone gay? It's like a condition of the anti slash rant along with 'I'm not homophobic but...'
We're writing about men or women having sex with someone of the same gender, that's all. There's no secret agenda to take over the world, we're not churning out coded stories designed to overthrow the het majority.
I write slash because I see it. I see subtext in all my fandoms. I also find the idea of two men together incredibly hot, others don't. So what? I'm not going to stuff what I think down their throats.
Fandom is a big place, there's room for everyone. Those that want het, gen, slash. People who are fans of Mary Sue's, darkfic, fluff, kink. You want a story about Jim and Carolyn, it's out there. You want Blair tying Jim up and making him call him Daddy it's out there too. There's millions of stories, no one needs to see things that they don't want to. So why the hell protest about something?
So you don't like slash. Don't read it, that's your right. But don't try and start a movement against it, because that's going too far.
I respect everyone's right to hold a view, even if it contradicts what I think. But if you start posting icons and rallying support, well it's at that point I'll turn, point and mock and remind myself yet again how stupid people in fandom can be.
I swear some people are nuts. Anti slash icons, do they really thing it'll make a difference? Also, does every person that bashes slash have to say that they know someone gay? It's like a condition of the anti slash rant along with 'I'm not homophobic but...'
We're writing about men or women having sex with someone of the same gender, that's all. There's no secret agenda to take over the world, we're not churning out coded stories designed to overthrow the het majority.
I write slash because I see it. I see subtext in all my fandoms. I also find the idea of two men together incredibly hot, others don't. So what? I'm not going to stuff what I think down their throats.
Fandom is a big place, there's room for everyone. Those that want het, gen, slash. People who are fans of Mary Sue's, darkfic, fluff, kink. You want a story about Jim and Carolyn, it's out there. You want Blair tying Jim up and making him call him Daddy it's out there too. There's millions of stories, no one needs to see things that they don't want to. So why the hell protest about something?
So you don't like slash. Don't read it, that's your right. But don't try and start a movement against it, because that's going too far.
I respect everyone's right to hold a view, even if it contradicts what I think. But if you start posting icons and rallying support, well it's at that point I'll turn, point and mock and remind myself yet again how stupid people in fandom can be.
