(Heh, I do write slash - quite a lot of it - but I don't identify as "a slasher" any more than I do as "a femslasher" or "a hetter (?)" or "a genner". I've written and enjoyed all of the above; I just go where the OTP takes me. So for purposes of discussions like this it can be hard to tell whether I'm meant to be included. Are they talking about everyone who has ever been into slash in any context, or only those people who like slash for its own sake, above and beyond specific characters/pairings?)
Hear hear. Compound that with the problem that people who are approaching or experiencing that shift are often really, really not into talking about it, so you've got a group of people who are not only overlooked, but predisposed to not speak up for themselves...it gets very messy, very fast.
(These are, like, the first three of about eleven hundred reasons why I think fandom's attempt to do QueerFail '10 is doomed to crash and burn. If it isn't doing so already.)
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(Heh, I do write slash - quite a lot of it - but I don't identify as "a slasher" any more than I do as "a femslasher" or "a hetter (?)" or "a genner". I've written and enjoyed all of the above; I just go where the OTP takes me. So for purposes of discussions like this it can be hard to tell whether I'm meant to be included. Are they talking about everyone who has ever been into slash in any context, or only those people who like slash for its own sake, above and beyond specific characters/pairings?)
Hear hear. Compound that with the problem that people who are approaching or experiencing that shift are often really, really not into talking about it, so you've got a group of people who are not only overlooked, but predisposed to not speak up for themselves...it gets very messy, very fast.
(These are, like, the first three of about eleven hundred reasons why I think fandom's attempt to do QueerFail '10 is doomed to crash and burn. If it isn't doing so already.)