Going by the secret and just the secret, I can see his point -- hell, I even agree with him to an extent, because I hate stereotypical lesbian porn for the same reason: it's outsiders trying to portray an aspect of my life and telling me that it's not FOR ME when I complain. Or worse, tell me that it's all in fun and I shouldn't be ruining their good time by wanting to be treated as something other than someone's kink.
Anyone who thinks that real gay men act like that has a few more problems than the doujinshi on her hard drive.
Yes, she does -- but chances are she's never going to be told that her beliefs are wrong either because she's spending her time surrounded by other fans who think the exact same way. So those beliefs will likely be reinforced and anybody who disagrees is just a meanie trying to harsh her squee because slash isn't *really* about gay guys. And she knows that because even scholarly articles try to do their damnest to divorce the idea of homosexuality out of slash.
And that division, that idea that slash isn't really about homosexuality is, to me, pretty damned heterosexist. I mean, slash *is* about homosexuality! It's about two people of the same sex having sex! You can't get any more homo than that! People can blather on all they want about how it's women taking control of their own sexuality and subverting texts and playing with power relationships (and I'll even agree because yeah, that's there too) but homosexuality *is* a part of slash.
Fandom has a tendency to want to pretend that we're some sort of magical Consequence Free Zone where what we do isn't important but yeah, sometimes what we do does have an impact outside of our pretendy funtime games and we should remember that.
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Date: 2009-02-25 02:07 am (UTC)Anyone who thinks that real gay men act like that has a few more problems than the doujinshi on her hard drive.
Yes, she does -- but chances are she's never going to be told that her beliefs are wrong either because she's spending her time surrounded by other fans who think the exact same way. So those beliefs will likely be reinforced and anybody who disagrees is just a meanie trying to harsh her squee because slash isn't *really* about gay guys. And she knows that because even scholarly articles try to do their damnest to divorce the idea of homosexuality out of slash.
And that division, that idea that slash isn't really about homosexuality is, to me, pretty damned heterosexist. I mean, slash *is* about homosexuality! It's about two people of the same sex having sex! You can't get any more homo than that! People can blather on all they want about how it's women taking control of their own sexuality and subverting texts and playing with power relationships (and I'll even agree because yeah, that's there too) but homosexuality *is* a part of slash.
Fandom has a tendency to want to pretend that we're some sort of magical Consequence Free Zone where what we do isn't important but yeah, sometimes what we do does have an impact outside of our pretendy funtime games and we should remember that.