Interesting Article and Discussion about Slash

[eveningblue]

Do any of you read The Mary Sue? It's a website with a feminist perspective on fandom.

They posted this interesting article yesterday, On the Fetishization of Gay Men by Women in the Slash Community. But what was really great was the comment section--some really interesting, thoughtful discussions of slash by all sorts of fans. (In which I participated. Don't hate me!)

Comments

[eveningblue]

Yes, I really enjoyed the discussion. I miss that from the old LiveJournal days.

Who was Biblio and how did he or she characterize Daniel?

[princessofgeeks]

She was an early and very influential fanfic writer in SG1, and her work was good, but she did tend to cast Daniel as a naif. And focus on how slim and young he was in contrast to Jack.

I've always been puzzled by people's insistence that SG1 is full of badfic. It's not.

But the criticism in that thread about one half of the m/m slash pairing getting overly feminized has more than a grain of truth in it. And in some cases it's borne out by canon to a certain extent.

[eveningblue]

But the criticism in that thread about one half of the m/m slash pairing getting overly feminized has more than a grain of truth in it.

Yes. I avoid those, but they seem to have an audience. To each his or her own, I guess.

"Badfic" is so subjective. I learned long ago that my tastes are not the same as everyone's. My favorite thing to read is SGA John/Rodney slash, because there is so MUCH of it I can find a lot of stories that I like. But the slash often seems pasted on, and I wish some of the writers had just written friendship fics instead.

[princessofgeeks]

Lucky you! There's TONS of John/Rodney. I doubt anyone could ever read it all.