I want to preface this anecdote with the caveat that I am not speaking of slash as a genre or slash fans as a group. It's an anecdote about one specific individual. There is not one damn thing odd in people slashing characters that they enjoy, are intrigued by, or whose interaction and/or relationship dynamic (whatever that might be) interests them. I've shipped UC and canon same gender pairings myself. This anecdote is totally not about that. This is about something... different.
This anecdote was being on a board somewhere where some girl (I'm using girl because she did come across as being terribly young) who said that she wrote m/m fanfic because the 'girlie bits' made her uncomfortable and freaked her out to the point that she found it intolerable. She totally couldn't read fiction that involved females interacting with males sexually... which was why she shipped male/male slash.
I desperately wanted to tell her that that's... well, that's an issue. There was so much loathing for the female body in her post that it was concerning. Hatred of 'girlie bits' (her words, not mine) is upsetting. No one should loathe a gender's sexuality.
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Date: 2013-12-05 06:34 pm (UTC)This anecdote was being on a board somewhere where some girl (I'm using girl because she did come across as being terribly young) who said that she wrote m/m fanfic because the 'girlie bits' made her uncomfortable and freaked her out to the point that she found it intolerable. She totally couldn't read fiction that involved females interacting with males sexually... which was why she shipped male/male slash.
I desperately wanted to tell her that that's... well, that's an issue. There was so much loathing for the female body in her post that it was concerning. Hatred of 'girlie bits' (her words, not mine) is upsetting. No one should loathe a gender's sexuality.