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fandomsecrets2011-04-06 03:57 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-04-06 03:57 pm
[ SECRET POST #1555 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1555 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 12:37 am (UTC)(link)I don't know about the possibility or feasibility of polling from a much larger fan population (such as those on FFNet, or deviantART), but I wouldn't be surprised if a larger majority identified as straight than queer at least within those communities.
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Much better backed up than the "common knowledge" that slashers are straight women, which is... based on one paper on once newsgroup twenty years ago.
The idea that slashers are straight has NO BASIS IN ANYTHING:
Finally, Wikipedia's reference for saying that "polls claim most slashers are heterosexual women", which has propagated everywhere, is Anne Kustritz's paper "Slashing the Romance Narrative", first published in the Journal of Amercan Culture in 2003, available in pdf here: http://www.laurientaylor.org/research/sources/slashfic.pdf . She, in turns, cites three informal fandom essays[...] The first is a clearly parodic essay on the Sith Academy, http://www.siubhan.com/sithacademy/criticalintro.html , which uses no poll or survey data, and does not even touch on the question of slashers' sexuality (despite Kustritz' citation implying it does.)
The idea that at least half of slashers are not straight has A LOT OF SUPPORT:
So, over 9 polls, in a variety of slash subfandoms from the late-teens yaoi set to the mid-thirties meta fans set, dates ranging over 7 years. Only onetwo polls had less than 50% queer participants, and that wasone of them the earliest one, and even they were at 37% and 47%. The median percent of queer participants was 59.7%, and the mean was 61.5% 60.8%.
Painting queer girls as a vast minority is, yeah, silencing.
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(Anonymous) 2011-04-07 01:21 am (UTC)(link)