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!)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Slash in general can contain a lot of disturbing elements. (Wax Jism, for example, will kill and maim without a second thought -- but she does it brilliantly; it's not meant to be violent towards the subject, it's ... well, darkfic. If that makes sense.) But RPS seems to be generally "tamer" than FPS.

(Partially, I think, because of a sense of propriety on a lot of people's behalf, but also because RPS is fairly new, so not everything has been done already, and you don't have to resort to gratuicious (sp?) violence to be original.)

I'm not sure how much the general population knows about slash. My collegue knew about it, and Sex Pistols RPS has been publicised in Q Magazine, one of the UK's leading music mags. I do know that every mundane I've talked to slash about a) doesn't make a distinction between FPS and RPS and b) thinks we're freaks, but doesn't really care.

Basically, the only people upset about RPS/RPF seem to be FPS/FPFers. Go fig. :/

And yeah, the "but thing. Argh. The funny thing is, I always use that argument in reverse. ("I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say." (Voltaire))

Well, for me...

[coneyislandbaby]

(Partially, I think, because of a sense of propriety on a lot of people's behalf,

This is a big part of it for me. Do unto others, and all that. I really can't imagine writing any RPS that I wouldn't be perfectly happy to have written about me. I can go further with FPS, because I don't think about that with FPS. But that's just me.