My comp froze and my long reply was eaten. To summarize.
People should stop trying to devalue the thing they don't like just to justify what they do like. I can say,
"Football is fucking boring as shit and the people who play it aren't true athletes, just a bunch of money-hogs who dope up and for what? Bad rerun tv. Now, ice hockey...ice hockey is AWESOME and you can see how hard it is, how much skill that it takes. That's a much better game."
Except saying that doesn't make me a thoughtful analyst. It makes me an asshole.
I feel this way about het v. slash discussions. It's all whiny hypocrisy and blindness. About the only thing I don't feel guilty about looking down my nose at is RPF. I honestly think that is demented and no long, eloquent essays are ever going to cure me of the gut reaction that screams out against it. If people who write slash feel the way about het that I feel about RPF, then I guess I can understand why they feel a need to describe how twisted it is. Or vice versa with slash. But even so...I may think RPF is messed up b.s., but I'm not going to write a long essay about why it's inferior and less complex emotionally and then make long posts about it. I'm content to let them do their thing, I just won't read it. This is fandom! Who even cares if someone else doesn't like what you like. Another someone always does.
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People should stop trying to devalue the thing they don't like just to justify what they do like. I can say,
"Football is fucking boring as shit and the people who play it aren't true athletes, just a bunch of money-hogs who dope up and for what? Bad rerun tv. Now, ice hockey...ice hockey is AWESOME and you can see how hard it is, how much skill that it takes. That's a much better game."
Except saying that doesn't make me a thoughtful analyst. It makes
me an asshole.
I feel this way about het v. slash discussions. It's all whiny hypocrisy and blindness. About the only thing I don't feel guilty about looking down my nose at is RPF. I honestly think that is demented and no long, eloquent essays are ever going to cure me of the gut reaction that screams out against it. If people who write slash feel the way about het that I feel about RPF, then I guess I can understand why they feel a need to describe how twisted it is. Or vice versa with slash. But even so...I may think RPF is messed up b.s., but I'm not going to write a long essay about why it's inferior and less complex emotionally and then make long posts about it. I'm content to let them do their thing, I just won't read it. This is fandom! Who even cares if someone else doesn't like what you like. Another someone always does.