Lisa wrote:
Shane Little wrote:
But the original show was about politics, not sex, after all, and we shouldn't let the politics of it be overwhelmed by the sex.
Who's "we"
Me and my militant army of slash-eating penguins, that's who.
, and why shouldn't "we"
Because you're missing out on a whole range of experience, that's why.
, and who are you to say what "we" should or shouldn't do, anyhow?
Oh, no one, I'm just expressing an opinion. No law against that as far as I know. Yet.
Personally, I've never thought of the original show being about politics,
So why exactly did you think Blake and Co. were on the run?
and that aspect of it holds very little interest for me. (Mind you, I don't think of it as being about sex either, if that makes you any happier...)
Well, what is it about for you then?
I'm sure there's very political slash out there but most of it does seem to be just PWP.
I was going to respond to this, but then you did it for me in your next message:
You've only been reading the porn then. Plenty of writing by and for gay men deals with other aspects of life (even though they may write about sex as well).
Substitute "slash" instead of "writing by and for gay men", and you have my response. (Thank you.)
Well, you're welcome, but I've never denied it. What I find really objectionable is explicit artwork without permission, despite the subjects' objections to it. I'm not too keen on PWP either, but if a slash story does have a serious message I say well done.
There's certainly a fair bit of PWP around -- why shouldn't there be, if there are people who enjoy writing and reading it? -- but it's a far cry from "most".
I want stats!
Shouldn't they be read by gay men too? Or do you want to keep slash your own private club?
There are gay men who do read (and write) slash. The point is that the majority of it is not being written *for* them, i.e. with them in mind as the target audience, not that they "shouldn't" read it if they want to.
No, it isn't the target audience, it's true. But it does bug me to think of a distorted version of my lifestyle turned into somebody else's fantasy (funny, I have a lesbian friend who said exactly the same thing about those videos for straight men that purport to show lesbians. Never knew how she felt till I discovered certain areas of B7 fandom). If you want to read this sort of slash as a fantasy, fair enough-- but it doesn't have much to do either with gay lifestyles _or_ with the programme itself.
Shane
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