I read that yesterday and it was 'interesting'. It’s hard to give it any credence since apparently she read three stories and made a bunch of generalizations. There seems to be a whole lot of subscribing to mythology that is no where near as prevalent as she suggests.
Not all slash has the chicks-with-dicks, ‘somebody has to be the woman!’, uke/seme dynamic. The fandoms I read in, it is a very small fraction of what is written, thankfully.
The stuff about the relationships ending and everyone returning hetero at the end, WTF. I only saw anything like this once, and it was some twit who underwent some sort of intervention from her church group, which apparently made reading and writing slash and explicit mansex okay, as long as they eventually 'got right' and lived HEA with the perfect woman. (She wrote a pairing I didn't care for but it was a bit of a wank since she kept asking for recs of her new preferences and commenting on others fic in a similar vein.)
And the no lesbians thing, I actually thought lesbians were a bit of a slash trope, make the girlfriend/female lead a lesbian and everyone is happy and getting some, even if it's not explicitly.
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Date: 2008-03-27 04:24 am (UTC)Not all slash has the chicks-with-dicks, ‘somebody has to be the woman!’, uke/seme dynamic. The fandoms I read in, it is a very small fraction of what is written, thankfully.
The stuff about the relationships ending and everyone returning hetero at the end, WTF. I only saw anything like this once, and it was some twit who underwent some sort of intervention from her church group, which apparently made reading and writing slash and explicit mansex okay, as long as they eventually 'got right' and lived HEA with the perfect woman. (She wrote a pairing I didn't care for but it was a bit of a wank since she kept asking for recs of her new preferences and commenting on others fic in a similar vein.)
And the no lesbians thing, I actually thought lesbians were a bit of a slash trope, make the girlfriend/female lead a lesbian and everyone is happy and getting some, even if it's not explicitly.