On Labeling Slash Fiction

[creativeslumber]

Just, randomly, and I guess this issue's been run to the ground before, but is it dishonest and offensive to place a slash and drama fic under a Drama category if a Slash category is available, even if the fic is mostly Drama

Comments

[fallenravie]

Personally, I find the fact that there's even a need to label things slash at all quite irritating. There's the issue of visibility for your fic, but it honestly annoys me. If a fic is comedy, label it comedy. The pairing makes no difference because we're speaking of content not... sexual orientation. I'm saddened by the fact that even fic-writers, those who claim to be so outside the bounds of society, continue the game of labeling things according to the characters we choose to mold. Maybe it's just me, but I think there are much better ways to categorize things.

[longsunday]

i think the whole Labelling Slash thing goes back to the tricky issue of homosexuality/hetersexuality as a whole. because, In Life, heterosexual is seen as the default, right? (i'm skimming over this, because eek! tread carefully) so thus in fiction, het is seen as default. hence slash being labelled as such, hence people's really annoying habit of introducing themselves at social gatherings with hello, i'm x. i'm gay when really all you want to know is their name and where they got that sweet sparkly cocktail.

the whole thing is annoying, really. when it stops happening, that's when you know soceity has finally got over the sexuality Issue. :P i wouldn't say i'm offended by it, though - i think that's taking it a bit far, being offended by what people have basically been brought up to assume is the right way of going about things, you know? we should just be sneaky, and stop putting slash warnings on stuff (which i don't anyway) - unless it's like, NC17 or something, because even het warns when there's porn. XD

[creativeslumber]

Bleh the labels, but I guess somehow I can't contest the default sexuality in HP. As much as slash is evident in HPland, het is too, but I think we can't really choose which is more dominant. I just wish I could not be taken by surprise anymore when people go OMG YOU DIDN'T PUT THIS IN SLASH BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE ALL THE EVIL FICS GOOOOOO, even though I did give the ship.

But actually, I'm pretty pleased with HP fandom. It's the farthest I've seen a fandom be unbiased in het and slash.

[spinadrift]

Generally, I label things as slash or saffic just because I don't want to get the "eww ur gross" type of responses. That way, if somebody thinks homosexuality is an abberation or whatever (though my experiences in fandom have shown that 95% of people are pretty open-minded), they have an ideaof what's involved and they can either steer clear or get a "you read the warning, now piss off

[thethirdbar]

You are so wise. *In awe of your wiseosity*