you know, not all slash is actually about sex

There is an imbroglio going around some* fannish circles about slash and professional m/m fiction and how it is often appropriative and disrespectful to/of gay men, and how gay men are being hurtful in criticizing female expressions of sexuality through slash, and god knows what all else. Recently this has developed side issues about the way the issue is persistently framed as 'straight women vs. gay men' which ignores the fact that (apparently) the majority of slash writers identify as some variation of queer.

(You can find some of the latest round in this metafandom post, if you are curious.)

( and what are YOUR thoughts on yaoi, Liz? )

But that does not make for good arguments or sociological essays, I guess. *wry*


*I say 'some' because it is clearly completely off the radar of, like, eighty percent of my flist... which I am pretty sure is related to the fact that a lot of my flist is mostly in animanga fandoms and another, somewhat overlapping proportion does not seem interested in pan-fandom meta. (This is, incidentally, much more true for LJ than DW; I use DW less for fic reading and more for thinky semi-sociological reading.)

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Please note that this post is not intended as an attack on anyone or anyone's point of view. I am just saying that for me, this whole argument is like reading local news from a foreign country, because none of the perspectives (except maybe kaz's post about invisible asexuals) have much to do with my experience of the world.