Once more, with fucking feeling!

[bubosquared]

Random rant brought on by something arkane156 linked to:

I really, really, really wish the anti-RPSers would STOP insisting that if/when we'd be slashed, we'd be upset about it.

One: No. We. Wouldn't! Argh! For fuck's sake, how many times do we need to say this? I don't kow about this person, but personally, I'm intelligent enough to be able to distinguish facts from fiction, and slander from stories clearly labelled as not true. If she lacks the cognitive abilities to do so, that's not my fucking fault.

Two: The standard response to our assertions that we don't give a rat's arse about being slashed ourselves is "But you can't apply your feelings to other people!" Hey, guess what? NEITHER CAN YOU!

Three: Honestly, I'm not that worried about celebrities being upset about (my) RPS. First of all because I happen to think that any celebrity whom I find interesting enough to write about has a sense of humour and some self-relativation. Really, I think Justin Timberlake ismore worried about the kind of fans who rummage through his garbage and follow him on a private holiday with his girlfriend, than about the kind who writes stories about him fucking his groupmates. And secondly, even if they should a) find this stuff and b) be hurt, ... well, not to sound insensitive, but so fucking what? Everyone is going to find something online that they'll be hurt by. It's not my fucking job to make the internet safe for anyone. That goes for little kiddies who might stumble onto my porn, and it goes double for adults, even if said adults happen to be celebrities. They're just people, folks. i'm not gonna treat them any different from the average Joe Shmob (or Jane Fangirl, as the case may be) who reads my stories and is "traumatised" by them.

I'm gonna go take a shower and make dinner now. When I come back, if I'm still this angry, I might write her an email. Or maybe I'll update the FMO, or something. (Sugestions appreciated.)

(Hm. Seems like my inner RPS-spokesperson has returned with a vengeance. ^__^)

(Edit: I must say, I also rather like (not) her assertion that "[slashers] are, almost without question, straight female[s]", considering that most of the RPSers I know are anything but straight, and quiea few of them aren't exactly white, either. Also, this was relevant to this rant in what way? Motherfucking bitch!)

Comments

[sivan.livejournal.com]

Snarl.

I have said before, and will repeat as much as necessary, that if people wanted to write about me I wouldn't mind; that in fact it would make me happy that anyone might want to make the effort. (Again with the reservation that there might be "um" moments occurring if the fic didn't coincide with my personal preferences -- but nothing that I couldn't shrug off.)
Besides, how is RPS in any way worse than the rumours that are getting spread by the media anyway? I'd think that especially as a celebrity you'd have to get used to things like public misrepresentation very soon ... and press articles don't even usually come with disclaimers.

But that whole ongoing RPS argument is so terribly fruitless anyway. Meh. Will go drown the frustration in touchy LotR RPS now.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You said it, it's incredibly fruitless. That's a big part of why I am/was so burnt out on it: it just never goes anywhere. I swear, I have yet to hear an anti-RPS argument that I didn't hear at some point during the first four or five months of RS-X. That was nearly two years ago. You do the math.

They're just fcuking prejudiced bitches who are pissed because they want us all to respect their squick barriers and it's not workig anymore. There's a new generation of slashers, and the vast majority of them could care less about RPS.

Thank god.