I am not of the Right, nor do I play someone of the Right...well, anywhere, but this:
first, if there IS a set of slash writers who are uncomfortable with homosexuality in the "real world" but not in fiction, then -- why that is, exactly.
Just as there are blacks who are racist against blacks, and Jews who are anti-semitic, I'm sure there are slash writers who are uncomfortable with homosexuality. There's a whole brand of fiction called "smarm" that was popular in TS that (as I heard it, and read it in a couple of instances) the guys emphatically straight, but bathing and (literally) sleeping together, and also French kissing -- but they weren't gay. I know some people view the WNGWJLEO (we're not gay, we just love each other) cliche as being intrinsically homophobic, whereas I would say it could be, but isn't necessarily. When it is, though, it comes across as deeply, deeply disturbed. There's the whole "gay is icky" subtext, but this pair is redeemed by the fact of true, soul-bonding LUV. It's always read to me like the writer has issues they haven't yet worked out, where they feel they have to be against homosexuality in RL, but the appeal of slash is too strong. Human beings are capable of tremendous levels of contradiction.
Also, having finished watching Jeremiah, I now need Yet Another Markus icon, in his suit, that says "Not too much like a demented penguin." Or just "demented penguin." Markus! And penguins! Oh, my!
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first, if there IS a set of slash writers who are uncomfortable with homosexuality in the "real world" but not in fiction, then -- why that is, exactly.
Just as there are blacks who are racist against blacks, and Jews who are anti-semitic, I'm sure there are slash writers who are uncomfortable with homosexuality. There's a whole brand of fiction called "smarm" that was popular in TS that (as I heard it, and read it in a couple of instances) the guys emphatically straight, but bathing and (literally) sleeping together, and also French kissing -- but they weren't gay. I know some people view the WNGWJLEO (we're not gay, we just love each other) cliche as being intrinsically homophobic, whereas I would say it could be, but isn't necessarily. When it is, though, it comes across as deeply, deeply disturbed. There's the whole "gay is icky" subtext, but this pair is redeemed by the fact of true, soul-bonding LUV. It's always read to me like the writer has issues they haven't yet worked out, where they feel they have to be against homosexuality in RL, but the appeal of slash is too strong. Human beings are capable of tremendous levels of contradiction.
Also, having finished watching Jeremiah, I now need Yet Another Markus icon, in his suit, that says "Not too much like a demented penguin." Or just "demented penguin." Markus! And penguins! Oh, my!