Fandom Secrets Was MADE OF WORD

[redbrunja]

117: Fuck yes.

Also, author of 115: please come over to my lj. You are completely dead-on and I would LOVE to discus the awesomeness of Sai x Sakura with you, as well and find out where you found that amazing fanart.

160: While I feel your pain, HINATA knows Naruto quite well. It's him that has no idea who she is.

(Also, I was gone all day so I couldn't answer comments - I'll be responding to comments tomorrow. Also, remember to set your clocks forward.)

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

"I think you can be a slash (m/m) fan and be a feminist. I don't see how it's an automatic contradiction."

I do think the secret is badly worded (and it was probably by someone who hasn't had these discussions much) and have thought so since I first saw it last weekend, but, while it seems to be anti-slash-or at least, against using female characters and fictions poor treatment of them as justification-it isn't condemning people for liking it, just saying that the two don't go together. Most people wouldn't want hot sauce on their ice cream, but that doesn't make them natural enemies, or mean that a person can't like both without being a hypocrite. "Not feminist" isn't the equivalent of "anti-feminist," just like "about women" doesn't automatically equal "feminist." The fact that two things don't automatically go together doesn't make them natural enemies.

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! Yeah, totally misread. I just CAME from an argument with someone who hated slash but loved femmeslash, while claiming to hate romance, while stating that all het was sexist because of the patriarchal culture. Disregard above statement, please.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think that most people are seeing "slash" and" feminist" close together in something that isn't encouraging the connection, and automatically jumping to a conclusion that, combined with a few word choices (I would have replaced the bit where it says slash diminishes and ignores female characters with it prioritizing male characters over female characters) does make a degree of sense,but it results in most of the responses being a response to something that isn't in the secret at all.

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like I said in my journal, I still don't agree with the secret's opinion of slash.