Ah. When you started you said the article was specifically about women's reactions and motivations.
OK. To me, slash means non-canonical pairings between two men at least one of whom canon does not suggest is gay or bi. I don't boggle and say, "What is Jack/Ianto doing here? They're a canon couple!" (or even Dan Radcliffe/Draco Malfoy or Dan Radcliffe/Tom Felton (where "canon" includes "real life"--although I do expect an RPS warning on those)); but I do say, "what is John Doe/Richard Roe doing here? That's not slash, that's original fiction."
Chan, as I understand the term, is distressing to me. It's distinct from "underage", where two 15-year-olds are in a relationship. That I can appreciate; although if the relationship is going to be sexual there's only so young I can take it. Chan means an adult and a child. Disturbing because the child really isn't capable of giving informed consent--and so, no matter how willing the child is depicted as being, it's still essentially rape. Chan always needs a warning, underage not so much. Because underage is usually very nebulous. No story starts out "Remus and Sirius, who were only 14..." and the reader is left free to understand that they're 16 and over the age of consent.
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:00 pm (UTC)OK. To me, slash means non-canonical pairings between two men at least one of whom canon does not suggest is gay or bi. I don't boggle and say, "What is Jack/Ianto doing here? They're a canon couple!" (or even Dan Radcliffe/Draco Malfoy or Dan Radcliffe/Tom Felton (where "canon" includes "real life"--although I do expect an RPS warning on those)); but I do say, "what is John Doe/Richard Roe doing here? That's not slash, that's original fiction."
Chan, as I understand the term, is distressing to me. It's distinct from "underage", where two 15-year-olds are in a relationship. That I can appreciate; although if the relationship is going to be sexual there's only so young I can take it. Chan means an adult and a child. Disturbing because the child really isn't capable of giving informed consent--and so, no matter how willing the child is depicted as being, it's still essentially rape. Chan always needs a warning, underage not so much. Because underage is usually very nebulous. No story starts out "Remus and Sirius, who were only 14..." and the reader is left free to understand that they're 16 and over the age of consent.
Have I strayed too far?