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

[gal-montag.livejournal.com]

Um, this individual is obviously very sick. Like in the head. (I'm basing this solely on her little story. *tiwtches*) I already popped an email off to her, but I thought of so many brillaint things after the fact. =p

Her suggestion that all RPS writers/readers should have a story like the one she described written about them is completely baseless. I have never in my life read such a horrible thing in any fandom, FPS or RPS. And to suggest that's what is being written by RPSers is uninformed at best.

Her argument is flawed, because if I had a stalker who had written such a thing and included my home address and sent it me, that is called harassment. (Even if it had a disclaimer.) I don't know where Justin Timberlake lives, and even if I did I wouldn't send him anything I'd written about him. And even if I did that, it sure as hell wouldn't inculde his rape and murder.

And I realized how mad it made me that she was comapring a story in which someone is depicted as gay (whether they are or not) to one where someone is raped, murdered in a horrible way and then raped again. Because there is no comparison. *seethes*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

THank you, that's another good point -- We (RPSers) don't force our "subjects" to read our stories. In fact, a lot of us stash our stories away behind noindex tags and robot.txt files. And even those who don't ...

Does this person really think Justin Timberlake has nothing better to do than surf the web looking for fansites about himself? Honestly? And if he does, does she truly think he'd be more hurt and scared by us than by the teenies who stalked him and Britney on their vacation, who go through his trash, who get onstage and grab him and won't let go? (Dude, I was scared about that!)

A little perspective here would be nice. Grr.

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[gal-montag.livejournal.com]

Well, and I find it hard to believe that a guy who gets called "faggot" to his face on a regular basis would have a problem with a story about him that says the same thing (more or less) in a more appropriate way.