la la la femslash

[schmerica]

I don't really find the "why do lesbians dig m/m slash, anyway?" discussions all that interesting anymore -- like most slash discussions, it seems to have lots of interesting theories but basically come down to "why are people turned on by what turns them on?" which, really, strikes me as a question that doesn't need an answer -- but it struck on this last go-round that, hey. No one ever asks about the straight girls who write/dig femslash, eh?

I imagine this is possibly a combination of several things:

a) That femslash tends to be under-represented or -cared-for or -considered in slash fandom in general.

b) That there aren't that many of us (and possibly an assumption of queerness goes along with the writing of f/f, though I'm not really confident on that point. At any rate, straightness is not necessarily something immediately apparent, especially since slash fandom tends to be a very queer-seeming place, at least in the circles I'm most familiar with).

On a completely different note, my dad and brother left yesterday for their week at the national trapper's convention. I love them both dearly, but the week every year when they're gone? It's like vacation, man. Yaaaaay.

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Eeeenteresting. You're right: I do tend to assume at least mild bisexuality on the part of a female author who writes girl-on-girl. To the point where I wanna say dude, you've gotta be at *least* a Kinsey 1 if you're even thinking about it like that. But then that's labelling and I should not do that. :) I'll be watching this thread. ;)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm not necessarily anti-label, but at a certain point it becomes kind of meaningless, yeah? I mean, I think girls are pretty or even hot, and I'm interested in f/f relationships, so I supposed you could argue problematic aspects to pure heterosexuality. But on the other hand, if girls don't get me off and I don't want to have a relationship with one, I'm not sure any other label has any use.