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Slash meta #1: please discuss!
Okay! I've begun reading a couple of recent-ish articles so I can have some non-anecdotal references for this article I'm writing, and came across this rather stunning sentence:
I'll be getting the book from interlibrary loan that has the essay that made this argument. I had an instant response to the comment, but rather than put out my thoughts, I'd like yours. I probably won't respond to these as I'm positing myself as an observer and will organize and interpret what happens later, but for anyone who has a thought on this who would like to share it, please do, and comment among each other. But play nice!!! No bashing on my LJ. Everyone is allowed to her own opinion.
For those who are interested, that argument came from an essay contained in the book Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans & perverts: feminist essays, edited by Joanna Russ and published in 1985. It's a bit older, but that premise still stunned me. And with a title like that, why wouldn't I want to read all of the essays?!
- In fact, it has been argued that slash is not really about male homosexuality at all; rather, it is about a female fantasy of heterosexual sex acted out via ostensibly male bodies.
I'll be getting the book from interlibrary loan that has the essay that made this argument. I had an instant response to the comment, but rather than put out my thoughts, I'd like yours. I probably won't respond to these as I'm positing myself as an observer and will organize and interpret what happens later, but for anyone who has a thought on this who would like to share it, please do, and comment among each other. But play nice!!! No bashing on my LJ. Everyone is allowed to her own opinion.
For those who are interested, that argument came from an essay contained in the book Magic mommas, trembling sisters, puritans & perverts: feminist essays, edited by Joanna Russ and published in 1985. It's a bit older, but that premise still stunned me. And with a title like that, why wouldn't I want to read all of the essays?!
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I write and read slash *and* het, so when I want heterosexual sex in fiction, it's perfectly available to me and there's no need to substitute it for something else. I think a big part of the reason I'm interested in m/m slash is precisely because it's the one type of sex I've never experienced and never will in this lifetime. So I'm insanely, perhaps creepily, fascinated with it and curious about it. It has the appeal of the "forbidden" not because society forbids to me, but because my gender does. It's a way of "traveling" to "another place" in my imagination, and I've discovered that I really like it there.
That's tied into why I like fiction so much overall. I like to live in the heads of people who aren't me and don't have a life that's very much like mine. Writing self-inserts and autobiography doesn't do it for me (though of course every character I write winds up with a *little* of me in him or her, that can't be avoided); I write to try on other identities, other experiences, other places, other bodies, other souls.