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[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

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[demeter918.livejournal.com]

*laughs* This was written before I saw your post.

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

Weiss Kreuz is another good example of female-hating. Sure, the female characters sucked, but often you'd hear people whining about so-and-so getting in the way of the yaoi rather than she was just plain annoying.

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[demeter918.livejournal.com]

I actually liked the myriad of - admittedly sketchy characters - females. At least they kicked butt rather than sitting around looking pretty. *rubs hands together evilly*

Weiss Kreuz isn't the best anime, so that's to be expected, since the whole marketing is aimed at younger boys who will be impressed by their skills and how they have women around them in droves, and girls/women of all ages who lust after their 'prettiness' and perfection for slash/yaoi stories.

I tend to find those who hate female characters such as Amelia from Slayers or Shampoo from Ranma or Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi to be grasping at straws or simply making a lot of things up in order to give themselves reasons to hate female characters.

One oft-used reason for Amelia is the glomping of Zelgadis (oddly enough, in *this* case, it's the Lina/Zelgadis shippers who find Amelia intolerable) when throughout the series, she almost never actually glomped or even touched him without his permission. Etc. etc.