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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-05 02:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #2195 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2195 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-01-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
So when you have a lesbian story you either have to address those issues - which is exhausting and dispiriting to keep sitting through - or pretend like they don't exist - which is unrealistic and makes the story ring false.

In other words, anyone who tries to write a homosexual couple is damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I think the "problem" is that your standards are too exacting. You've tied yourself in knots over what constitutes the proper treatment of a homosexual relationship, and you think that anyone who's writing homosexual relationships must do the same. But, the thing is, they don't actually have to.

Far from perfect, but satisfying when you're sick to death of the shit lesbian storylines get when the bigots and the ignorant aren't oblivious.

Why should the fact that bigots and ignorant people trash homosexual storylines stop you from enjoying them? Isn't it in fact giving in to bigotry to say, "well, let's keep this to subtext so that douches don't criticize it?"

(Anonymous) 2013-01-06 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
This!

The last thing we need to do is discourage good writers, and good people who are budding writers, from attempting and writing gay relationships.