la la la femslash
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schmericaI 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.
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.
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9/8/04 22:53 (UTC)Because in the pro fiction world, straight people write about gay relationships and gay people write about straight relationships, and while it may not be exceedingly common, it's not uncommon, either. Neil Gaiman comes to mind -- for a straight author, he has a lot of (IMO) well-done portrayals of gay and trans characters in his writing, and it's not because of his sexuality but because those were the characters he wanted to write. Where in fandom, it tends to be assumed that we're attracted to the characters sexually, or we wouldn't write about them. Silly, yeah.
I think there may also be a difference between visual-media fandom and written-media fandom. There are, IMO, a lot more people in book-based fandoms who are not physically attracted to the characters (difficult, when they're words) and a lot more in media fandoms who write at least partially for The Pretty. So there's more of an assumption there that sexuality determines fic choice. Or something.
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
Yeah, REALLY. I mean, if I understood why things turn me on, I'd probably be too freaked out to leave my room. Some things are better unanalyzed.
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11/8/04 08:29 (UTC)peoplebeings I write about. Honest!