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Jan. 20th, 2010 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maeveleI'm new to this whole fanfic/slash thing. I mean, I knew it existed, but just got into it a couple months. and I do not write it.
and i have a whole lot of thinky thoughts about the current shitstorm, but there is probably no point in jumping in, since i am only a reader of fic, not a writer, and the trouble seems to revolve around who is writing the stories, not who is enjoying them. but thoughts, i haz.
hm.. if queer women wish they were represented in the media, but every time we are it's as male-gaze eyecandy, and half the women characters in stories we like are written as background or props? we have to go to the fully developed characters we love and queer them, and those developed characters in most media? men.
I keep wanting to talk about how slash has affected my gender confusion, but i don't know how to get into that so well. just, um, yeah.
and i have a whole lot of thinky thoughts about the current shitstorm, but there is probably no point in jumping in, since i am only a reader of fic, not a writer, and the trouble seems to revolve around who is writing the stories, not who is enjoying them. but thoughts, i haz.
hm.. if queer women wish they were represented in the media, but every time we are it's as male-gaze eyecandy, and half the women characters in stories we like are written as background or props? we have to go to the fully developed characters we love and queer them, and those developed characters in most media? men.
I keep wanting to talk about how slash has affected my gender confusion, but i don't know how to get into that so well. just, um, yeah.
