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fandomsecrets2009-03-16 04:24 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2009-03-16 04:24 pm
[ SECRET POST #801 ]
⌈ Secret Post #801 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 295 secrets from Secret Submission Post #115.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 - repeat ], [ 1 - doing it wrong ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 - what ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: 146
(Anonymous) 2009-03-17 02:47 am (UTC)(link)I don't see slash as explicitly feminist. Or explicitly anything, other than explicitly m/m romance (using romance in a broad sense here). I think erotic fanfic, of any type, written by women for women, can be a way for women to reclaim their sexuality, and that can be feminist. Moreover, slash (or femslash) can be a way for authors to subvert heterosexual assumptions and gender roles. But it's not inherent to the genre.
Are there slash fics that are feminist!fail? Sure, plenty of them. But I see just as much fail in het, and even occasionally in femslash (one of my fandoms, Doctor Who, has a fair bit of femslash, but much of it has the female characters fixated on a male character). I think slash can be v. problematic as well. Not just in focusing on male characters, which doesn't bother me too much (it does bother me a bit), provided there's no misogyny in the way the female characters in the story are handled (which, to be fair, is as much a problem in het, for the characters that aren't part of the pairing). But I worry about gender roles in my fic, about if I'm subconsciously using negative heteronormative patterns, if I conflate penetration and agency, etc.
Tl;dr: There's potential for win and for fail in slash.
And I prefer m/m because I ship for character dynamics and go for a certain type of relationship, and the characters in such a relationship are male 99% of the time. Were I to write original fic with such a pairing, I'd def make at least one of the characters female, and possibly both, but I'm writing fanfic, and have to make do.
Sry if a bit incoherent.