The presence of penises doesn't make it opressive!
You know what? It's 01:36 AM, and I think I'm coming down with conjuntivitis (is that even a word? Anyway, I think I'll wake up tomorrow with a pink eye) but I just had to write an open letter to whoever wrote this mind-boggling piece of nonsense:
As to why women, gay, straight and bisexual, write slash fiction I think something I read recently really help clarify it for me. In anticlimax ,Sheila Jeffreys talked about a woman who, as a coping strategy for living with a violent, abusive husband, learnt to have orgasms whil being raped by her husband.
I think slash operates on the same principle. If women are going to be raped (metaphorically) by male supremecy day in and day out, when male supremacy is the air you breathe and the water you drink, then you learn to wring whatever pleasure you can from being raped. Slash is women wringing pleasure from their social and political powerlessness.
Dear Ms-Disgrace-To-Reasonable-Feminists:
1 - My president's vagina disagrees with your ''social and political powerlessness'' statement.
2 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape survivors.
3 - Just because a woman writes about male characters, it doesn't mean she's submitting to The Evil Patriarchy That Rapes Us Just By Existing. Women are not weak enough human beings to be disempowered just by writing about men, discussing things from a male POV or admiting to the existence of men in general. Some of us can still retain dignity while writing something that centers on a character who has a penis. Some of us even - gasp! - relate to those characters with penises and write stories from their perspective because we can see ourselves in them. Shocking, I know!
4 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape surivors.
5 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape survivors.
As to why women, gay, straight and bisexual, write slash fiction I think something I read recently really help clarify it for me. In anticlimax ,Sheila Jeffreys talked about a woman who, as a coping strategy for living with a violent, abusive husband, learnt to have orgasms whil being raped by her husband.
I think slash operates on the same principle. If women are going to be raped (metaphorically) by male supremecy day in and day out, when male supremacy is the air you breathe and the water you drink, then you learn to wring whatever pleasure you can from being raped. Slash is women wringing pleasure from their social and political powerlessness.
Dear Ms-Disgrace-To-Reasonable-Feminists:
1 - My president's vagina disagrees with your ''social and political powerlessness'' statement.
2 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape survivors.
3 - Just because a woman writes about male characters, it doesn't mean she's submitting to The Evil Patriarchy That Rapes Us Just By Existing. Women are not weak enough human beings to be disempowered just by writing about men, discussing things from a male POV or admiting to the existence of men in general. Some of us can still retain dignity while writing something that centers on a character who has a penis. Some of us even - gasp! - relate to those characters with penises and write stories from their perspective because we can see ourselves in them. Shocking, I know!
4 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape surivors.
5 - Stop trivializing the experiences of real rape survivors.