That article was written by people who clearly don't understand the slash community, primarily that most slash is written by straight girls and it's dominated 99% by straight white dudes. While that does say some interesting things about how female sexuality expresses itself in the subculture, I don't think that counts as representation in the slightest, since it ultimately doesn't matter for those people one way or another, because they're pretty much promised that their sexuality (presumed hetero) is always going to be represented in mass media. It won't always be represented well, but the fact remains that media is full of straight people. As I said above, I think it's the prerogative of queer people to find representation within that subculture, but it's not anywhere near good enough. Saying people should settle for subtext is like relegating them to Tantalus-status which is not okay.
And the result of this, the part that really HITS ME WHERE I LIVE, is that "embracing slash" MEANS THROWING THE FUCKING FEMALE CHARACTERS THAT I LOVE UNDER THE BUS.
Exactly. Because there's so much misogyny in bromanceish shows, slashers reflect the misogyny, which in turn is reflected in the show when they look at what they think fans want. It's A VICIOUS CYCLE.
And it's the same basic mentality where they think women should just be happy to have a female supporting character that does things and doesn't die, the idea that women actually want women to be the hero of the story doesn't ever fucking occur to them, because they think throwing us a bone is enough. Same goes for POC.
I also found this interesting a nice and fairly balanced meta on why women get so much hate in fandom (http://aiffe.tumblr.com/post/43660300604/for-all-the-women-i-have-loved-who-were-dragged-through). I'll admit, I liked this one especially because it addressed that there's more than one cause for the trend, which is something I've felt for a long time
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That article was written by people who clearly don't understand the slash community, primarily that most slash is written by straight girls and it's dominated 99% by straight white dudes. While that does say some interesting things about how female sexuality expresses itself in the subculture, I don't think that counts as representation in the slightest, since it ultimately doesn't matter for those people one way or another, because they're pretty much promised that their sexuality (presumed hetero) is always going to be represented in mass media. It won't always be represented well, but the fact remains that media is full of straight people. As I said above, I think it's the prerogative of queer people to find representation within that subculture, but it's not anywhere near good enough. Saying people should settle for subtext is like relegating them to Tantalus-status which is not okay.
And the result of this, the part that really HITS ME WHERE I LIVE, is that "embracing slash" MEANS THROWING THE FUCKING FEMALE CHARACTERS THAT I LOVE UNDER THE BUS.
Exactly. Because there's so much misogyny in bromanceish shows, slashers reflect the misogyny, which in turn is reflected in the show when they look at what they think fans want. It's A VICIOUS CYCLE.
And it's the same basic mentality where they think women should just be happy to have a female supporting character that does things and doesn't die, the idea that women actually want women to be the hero of the story doesn't ever fucking occur to them, because they think throwing us a bone is enough. Same goes for POC.
I also found this interesting a nice and fairly balanced meta on why women get so much hate in fandom (http://aiffe.tumblr.com/post/43660300604/for-all-the-women-i-have-loved-who-were-dragged-through). I'll admit, I liked this one especially because it addressed that there's more than one cause for the trend, which is something I've felt for a long time