Does anyone--and I'm serious--actually believe that? I mean, really, truly, you sit down and think to yourself, those *slashers* (hetters) are destroying fandom by tying the hands of hetters (slashers) or trolling them off the net?
That's so baffling to me. Mostly I write (and read) slash, yes, but I also write (and read) het, gen, and femslash, and...see, It Isn't About The Genre: It's about the STORY. If I like the notion of putting two guys together in a situation with sexual sparks, it's not simply because they're male. It's because they're two interesting characters who might do something cool stuck together in that particular situation. Same thing with a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a whole team full of people. Characters are interesting. Physical anatomy is incidental.
Or, maybe I just fail at shipping, I don't know.
But what I totally fail to get in the (eternal) slash/femslash/het/gen struggle is any sense of actual persecution happening. I mean: one fan likes chocolate, I like butter pecan, someone else likes lemon sorbet, someone else prefers cheesecake. But is anyone actually trying to shove cheesecake into the lemon sorbet?
Or is there simply a helluva lot of cheesecake on the table, so it's hard to find the other flavors? Because if that's the case, then it's an organization issue. And that's easy to fix.
BUT. If it's that someone's bitching about there being too much cheesecake on the table, then hello, the solution is for the people who want it to put more of the other choices out there.
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That's so baffling to me. Mostly I write (and read) slash, yes, but I also write (and read) het, gen, and femslash, and...see, It Isn't About The Genre: It's about the STORY. If I like the notion of putting two guys together in a situation with sexual sparks, it's not simply because they're male. It's because they're two interesting characters who might do something cool stuck together in that particular situation. Same thing with a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a whole team full of people. Characters are interesting. Physical anatomy is incidental.
Or, maybe I just fail at shipping, I don't know.
But what I totally fail to get in the (eternal) slash/femslash/het/gen struggle is any sense of actual persecution happening. I mean: one fan likes chocolate, I like butter pecan, someone else likes lemon sorbet, someone else prefers cheesecake. But is anyone actually trying to shove cheesecake into the lemon sorbet?
Or is there simply a helluva lot of cheesecake on the table, so it's hard to find the other flavors? Because if that's the case, then it's an organization issue. And that's easy to fix.
BUT. If it's that someone's bitching about there being too much cheesecake on the table, then hello, the solution is for the people who want it to put more of the other choices out there.
*sigh*
Fandom is so weird sometimes...