Re: The wildest takes

(Anonymous) 2018-08-13 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
That’s not erasure—it’s kind of the opposite: a totally blank page where we can write ourselves with an unprecedented absence of cultural interference."

You know, I'm generally opposed to the "slash is women fetishizing gay men" idea, but treating gay men as a BLANK SLATE is also some kind of not good. Yuck.

Re: The wildest takes

(Anonymous) 2018-08-13 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
I don’t get how whenever Aja opens her mouth about writing, she talks about lofty ideas and like, bullshit psychological issues? She’s always been weak with characterisation, her strength lies in setting and narration, and she should just stick to that instead of creating characters nobody can like because they’re boring

Re: The wildest takes

(Anonymous) 2018-08-13 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
I just full-body shuddered.

And:
By contrast, no one has ever prescribed to us how to write two men together, because it just isn’t done. It’s off the map; here there be (sexy) monsters.
...Okay. Yeah. This is really really weird. Queer lit is a subfield within itself, and yeah, M/M and F/F are less common than M/F, but if she thinks that men have never ever written stories about men fucking other men and only women find M/M sexy, she's deluded. I mean, yeah, there are differences between female- and male-centric traditions of M/M fic, but...that's also true of M/F and F/F?

And nice job with the monsters imagery, Aja. That's not building on a long history of language associated with a certain type of homophobia at all.