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May. 1st, 2003 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demeter918
There are plenty of slash writers who are very intolerant of het and het writers.
There. I said it.
I'm as much of a slash fan as the next person, but I absolutely abhor when certain slash fans start harping on the incompetancy of women, and ripping stereotypical characteristics apart in order to justify their own pairings and desires. I am very much a fan of women characters, whether cool or not. They can be a bossy know-it-all or be a devout pacifist; they're still awesome and they all have their own points.
Which gets me onto men. I absolutely adore seeing them kiss, suck, fuck, cuddle, gaze meaningfully, giggle, whatever. I love them whether they're sleeping with Lily, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Seamus, Snape, Remus, Sriius, James, Dumbledore, Pansy, Padma, Hannah, Bloody Baron, Squid, anyone and everyone.
But being 'true' to slash does *not* mean you're automatically given the right to bash and laugh derisively at women. It absolutely does not mean certain women are eternal bitches and whores because certain men belong together. Ginny is not a screaming fangirl who's only in the path of Draco and Harry's true love. Just the same as Duo's not a 'faggot' who's in the way of Heero and Relena's true love.
Only immature (because you can be sixty and *still* immature or nine and more mature than the sixty year old) idiots will hate women because they think their devotion to slash can be proven better that way. Or that the world can exist without women, because, oh yes, men are better suited toward each other. It's even worse, since the slash community is comprised of mainly women (and girls), and the most virulent anti-women slashers are little girls who think they're open-minded, but are in reality, close-minded, prejudiced and in serious need of a wake-up call.
Harping on slash because of your own 'moral outrage' is homophobic trash and should be chucked out the window with all the other racist and prejudicial attitudes. Hating het because you love slash is the same thing as hating slash because you love het. It's all prejudice in one way or another.
There. I've had my fill for the day.
Next: Homophobia is bullshit
There. I said it.
I'm as much of a slash fan as the next person, but I absolutely abhor when certain slash fans start harping on the incompetancy of women, and ripping stereotypical characteristics apart in order to justify their own pairings and desires. I am very much a fan of women characters, whether cool or not. They can be a bossy know-it-all or be a devout pacifist; they're still awesome and they all have their own points.
Which gets me onto men. I absolutely adore seeing them kiss, suck, fuck, cuddle, gaze meaningfully, giggle, whatever. I love them whether they're sleeping with Lily, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Seamus, Snape, Remus, Sriius, James, Dumbledore, Pansy, Padma, Hannah, Bloody Baron, Squid, anyone and everyone.
But being 'true' to slash does *not* mean you're automatically given the right to bash and laugh derisively at women. It absolutely does not mean certain women are eternal bitches and whores because certain men belong together. Ginny is not a screaming fangirl who's only in the path of Draco and Harry's true love. Just the same as Duo's not a 'faggot' who's in the way of Heero and Relena's true love.
Only immature (because you can be sixty and *still* immature or nine and more mature than the sixty year old) idiots will hate women because they think their devotion to slash can be proven better that way. Or that the world can exist without women, because, oh yes, men are better suited toward each other. It's even worse, since the slash community is comprised of mainly women (and girls), and the most virulent anti-women slashers are little girls who think they're open-minded, but are in reality, close-minded, prejudiced and in serious need of a wake-up call.
Harping on slash because of your own 'moral outrage' is homophobic trash and should be chucked out the window with all the other racist and prejudicial attitudes. Hating het because you love slash is the same thing as hating slash because you love het. It's all prejudice in one way or another.
There. I've had my fill for the day.
Next: Homophobia is bullshit
