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Re: The wildest takes
(Anonymous) 2018-08-13 05:32 am (UTC)(link)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)Re: The wildest takes
(Anonymous) 2018-08-13 09:05 am (UTC)(link)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.