--- Mac4781@aol.com wrote:
First of all, thanks for sticking up for me. I've been having a difficult time at home recently. My suffering hasn't been beautiful :), and I guess it's made me prickly.
But you are not forced to read those posts. Just as
you told Marian and
Sally in regard to Tarrant stories "to stop reading
bad fanfic," you can
delete posts that are upsetting.
Well I do, but sometimes it's hard. You're following a discussion on, say, Travis 1/Travis 2, and suddenly someone pops up under the same header to talk about how much of each of them you can see through their costumes? By the time I've read enough to know I should delete it, it's too late. It seems like any subject can be given a sexual or innuendo twist, which IMHO often means turning an intelligent subject into a dirty joke.
It also seems like IMHO some people have become so wrapped up in fanfic (not just the slash stuff either) that they read it back into particular episodes too. And when someone suggests that the episode might not have been written with that intention, they appear to become furious.
But should sadism be a forbidden topic on the list?
And if it is, what other
topics that might offend a fan here or a fan there
should be forbidden?
That's a serious question. I don't like to offend
list members, but too much
censorship might water the list down to mush.
I'm not talking about censorship. I don't mind discussing this subject :). But there are ways and ways of discussing this. Just now, I got a post from Judith Proctor advertising a zine and saying that it has adult homosexual content. I don't mind that, and I'd be surprised if anyone here did. But she didn't come on talking about what happens to who in the stories. So as I said, this gives people who are interested the idea but doesn't put off people who aren't. And she's not cutesy about it either.
Wendy
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