[ SECRET POST #4468 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4468 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No-one said that. Just helped lay it out for someone who didn't see how only writing male characters and excluding female ones might be antithetical to feminism in a wider context. But sure, break it down to the lowest common denominator. Happy fapping, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

The very ridiculous insinuation that female characters must exist in every form of writing otherwise you are contributing to the erasure of women in fiction deserved a bit of mockery. How are you suggesting that this isn't what you said, considering the comment you chose to reply to?

[(Anonymous)]

You're taking the point to extremes.

At no point did I say that you were personally contributing to the erasure of women in fiction, only that the kind of work you choose to write is part of a larger trend that excludes female characters, and that if you consider yourself a feminist that might be something to think about.

You're the one who brought up your love of writing only male characters while calling yourself a feminist, and failing to understand why there might be a slight conflict of interests there. I was only attempting to explain where that conflict of interests might lie. My original post even made the point, explicitly, that you should write what you like, specifically so as not to come across as accusatory or judgemental of your interests.

But by all means continue to interpret "your work is part of a larger trend that marginalizes female characters" as "ALL BOYSLASH IS ANTIFEMINIST HELLSPAWN". I'll let you get on with it.

[(Anonymous)]

There is zero conflict of interest. We need more female representation in fiction in general, but that doesn't mean every story needs a plethora of female characters, any character in fiction is either necessary or not and in a romance short story there aren't usually many side characters anyway. If I plugged in twelve female characters in short slashfic just for representation, that'd just be bad writing.

I don't even get what you are even trying to say? "I'm not saying you PERSONALLY erase women, but you are contributing to the greater erasure of women" or something? It doesn't even make sense. Not everything you write is a political statement.

[(Anonymous)]

Um. You literally made it a political statement yourself in your very first comment. You identified, politically, as a feminist, then brought up your writing choices and explicitly asked people to compare the two. "I'm a feminist but I write only boys, how does the latter contradict the former"? And somehow the people answering that question are making it a political issue? Okay then.

[(Anonymous)]

Because the anon I replied to suggested it was wrong for feminists to write about dudes. I didn't start this game.

And no, the latter does not contradict the former.