Fail, Slash Fangirls, Fail

[redbrunja]

You know what I keep hearing? What pisses me off like no other?

The slasher pov that it is impossible to write a male/female relationship that is equal.

Fuck that.

If you want to write about boys sexing each other, fine, but don't flat-out state that it is impossible for a fictionally heterosexual relationship to ever be equal, as well as implying that every single real world straight relationship is inequal to boot.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

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.

[nimblnymph.livejournal.com]

"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."

No, it doesn't make you an asshole. You speak truth. *is mad hockey fan*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. And whenever people feel the need to denigrate something else to justify why what they're doing is so quantitatively better, I suspect that they don't feel comfortable liking what they like.

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.

Agreed. And I think the fact that it's using the names and images of real people vs fictional characters is what sets it apart from slash or het or femmeslash.