Interesting essay

[elisi]

Via my flist (lynnenne specifically):

SLASH FANFICTION: THE META OF ALL METAS

I’d love for people to read and share it, but the TL;DR is:

Slash is, first and foremost, a reaction against the sexual and gendered stereotypes that follow women in real life. It is also a direct result of the dearth of female representation in media. Using two male bodies offers an escape from forced identification and subverts the heterosexual male viewpoint taken in film, television, video games, and advertisements. Slash fiction is a world wherein women, for once, are not the ones who are “on display”.

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

*cough* Supernatural *cough*
Precisely.

Well, it shouldn't be either/or. There's more than enough space for everything.
Well, except when one has the misfortune to fall for a fandom that the slashers have colonized. They tend to have the force and numbers to overwhelm everything else :-\

Fortunately, as stated before, the biggest slash magnets tend not to have the most compelling female characters, so I usually move on before long . . .

Well... I wouldn't expect you to understand.
Realizing people are attractive is such a process, for realz.

[elisi]

Precisely.
I have never watched a single episode...

Well, except when one has the misfortune to fall for a fandom that the slashers have colonized. They tend to have the force and numbers to overwhelm everything else :-\
Ah. Yes, I can see the problem. You just have to write your own fic, I'm afraid...

Fortunately, as stated before, the biggest slash magnets tend not to have the most compelling female characters, so I usually move on before long . . .
Sad, but I don't doubt it.

Realizing people are attractive is such a process, for realz.
There, there. *pets*