Oh, not at all! You've brought up some excellent points to bring up in the panel/discussion!
*blush* Ahem, that's quite possible. Do enlighten me. I really don't get what's wrong with a girl reading m/m slash... except perhaps for religious issues.
It's not that there's something wrong with it, but that reading m/m slash doesn't necessarily mean one won't be hopmophobic. Homophobia can be quite subtle, and even I sometimes have to have it pointed out to me.
(Disclaimer: Most of what I'm about to ramble is based on what the slash fandom (and by that I mean "old skool" mainstream fandoms like The Sentinel, Highlander, etc.) was like up to about three years ago. I don't know if it's still like this in Fandom at Large, as I tend to avoid FAL for the most part, and I don't really "read around" anymore due to personal pickiness. So keep that in mind.)
A very common pet peeve among those slashers who are vocal enough to have a peeve list is "They're not Gay, they're just In Love!" stories, in which it's made quite clear to the reader (sometimes in so many words, even) that these two men are completely straight except for the tiny fact that they happen to be in love with each other. Yeah, I never understood that, either. There's a subtext of homophobia in there, as if being gay (or bi, but bi-phobia is another rant entirely) is reserved for the effeminate blokes and obviously these two manly men can't be gay, never mind the fact that they're saying all this with their mouth full of each other's dick.
(Ahem. Sorry about the crudeness, there.)
There's other examples, but that's the one that always struck me as the most glaring one, and I'd have to think to remember the other examples and explain why they struck me as homophobic.
Then there's the utter misogyny inherent in all the (ex-)gf bashing and the recuction of any canon female character to the Bitch, the Yenta or the Sister Figure, and that's even she's even acknowledged at all.
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Date: 2004-02-04 05:29 am (UTC)Oh, not at all! You've brought up some excellent points to bring up in the panel/discussion!
*blush* Ahem, that's quite possible. Do enlighten me. I really don't get what's wrong with a girl reading m/m slash... except perhaps for religious issues.
It's not that there's something wrong with it, but that reading m/m slash doesn't necessarily mean one won't be hopmophobic. Homophobia can be quite subtle, and even I sometimes have to have it pointed out to me.
(Disclaimer: Most of what I'm about to ramble is based on what the slash fandom (and by that I mean "old skool" mainstream fandoms like The Sentinel, Highlander, etc.) was like up to about three years ago. I don't know if it's still like this in Fandom at Large, as I tend to avoid FAL for the most part, and I don't really "read around" anymore due to personal pickiness. So keep that in mind.)
A very common pet peeve among those slashers who are vocal enough to have a peeve list is "They're not Gay, they're just In Love!" stories, in which it's made quite clear to the reader (sometimes in so many words, even) that these two men are completely straight except for the tiny fact that they happen to be in love with each other. Yeah, I never understood that, either. There's a subtext of homophobia in there, as if being gay (or bi, but bi-phobia is another rant entirely) is reserved for the effeminate blokes and obviously these two manly men can't be gay, never mind the fact that they're saying all this with their mouth full of each other's dick.
(Ahem. Sorry about the crudeness, there.)
There's other examples, but that's the one that always struck me as the most glaring one, and I'd have to think to remember the other examples and explain why they struck me as homophobic.
Then there's the utter misogyny inherent in all the (ex-)gf bashing and the recuction of any canon female character to the Bitch, the Yenta or the Sister Figure, and that's even she's even acknowledged at all.
Did any of that make sense?