Oh! Outrage!

[redbrunja]

If you tagged your fic 'Steve/Darcy' AND 'pre-slash' I can fucking guarantee, you are DOING SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG.

(Do not even get me started on my hatred of the tag 'pre-slash.')

Comments

[lokifan]

Errrm I don't think it's "undeniable" that slash is about "white, straight fangirls". Like, not to say that slash doesn't "reflect a lot of really problematic aspects of our culture" - I think that's an excellent way of phrasing it. But I would also point out that the proportion of queer slashers is big. Like, a few years ago there was an attempt at polling this stuff - and obviously those are inherently going to be skewed and messy, but this particular poll of thousands of self-identified slashers had the "queer women" proportion at around 60%. Straight women were in the minority. I mean, obvs that's just one poll, but it was pretty massive and is less anecdotal than my personal experience, so.

And obviously queer women can do fetishizing messy stuff too. But we're not even a small minority of slashers; we're a heavy proportion, and I genuinely think it's become kind of erasing to emphasise this "slashers with straight privilege" thing.

Idk. I don't massively disagree but I just think "undeniable" is way too certain of a term when there are so many people for whom slash is not about that at all

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

But I would also point out that the proportion of queer slashers is big. Like, a few years ago there was an attempt at polling this stuff - and obviously those are inherently going to be skewed and messy, but this particular poll of thousands of self-identified slashers had the "queer women" proportion at around 60%. Straight women were in the minority. I mean, obvs that's just one poll, but it was pretty massive and is less anecdotal than my personal experience, so.

Huh, that is really interesting, because that is completely different than the other percentages that I've seen quoted before.

Idk. I don't massively disagree but I just think "undeniable" is way too certain of a term when there are so many people for whom slash is not about that at all

Yeah, probably a bad word choice.