TEH SLASH DEBATE OMG
Aug. 25th, 2006 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Can we get a break from the self-congratulatory debates on
scans_daily filled with half-baked philosophy over why females like slash, or how plausible/OOC slash is, femslash vs. slash, how slash is an expression of female self-hatred, etc. etc. etc. fucking excetera?
I, for one, AM IN IT FOR THE PR0NO WOO.
Secondly, after my experience in Americorps, I can state with some authority that every male between the ages of 18-24 is bisexual after about 2 beers. Then again, so were all the females.
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I, for one, AM IN IT FOR THE PR0NO WOO.
Secondly, after my experience in Americorps, I can state with some authority that every male between the ages of 18-24 is bisexual after about 2 beers. Then again, so were all the females.
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Date: 2006-08-26 01:55 am (UTC)I feel a little guilty for participating in that discussion at all, although in my defense my comments were mostly quiet poking at overgeneralization.
At least
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Date: 2006-08-26 02:18 am (UTC)Some slashers = oversensitive and prone to "ZOMG PERSECUTION!"
Some non-slashers = HOW DARE YOU HAVE A FANTASY LIFE!
I have come across the anti-woman "I hate every female character in this book" thing with some slashers, however. Don't use the "no strong women in the genre" excuse for your slash and write five thousand word essays. As
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Date: 2006-08-26 10:41 am (UTC)Ah, slash. I have been fortunate enough to escape these debates. Female hatred? WTF? So men who like lesbians are self-hating of their gender? Riiiight.
As for the beer = bisexuality discussion point, this reminds me of a short story. A girl I attend art school with is bisexual. She told us one morning, "Guys, I think I turned a girl bi [while she was drunk]." XD