like the PATRIOT Act, only with porn instead of Islam.
I'm writing a paper for English about the relevance of slash in current fandoms. My thesis is that the idea of the m/m pairing in the media has fundamentally changed since the era of Kirk/Spock, and that with the emergence of canon gay ships (Willow/Tara, Jack/Will, Brian/Justin) and popular fanon het ships (Hermione/Snape, Spike/Faith) the line between "canon" and "slash" no longer exists. Therefore, distinguishing ships by sexuality is antiquated and should be replaced by distinguishing ships as "canon vs. not canon" rather than "slash vs. het."
So I was in a study hall yesterday doing research about academic perspectives of slash when my computer randomly shut down. I yelled at it, but assumed that it was just doing that because the school insisted on purchasing shitty Dell PCs instead of iBooks. So I rebooted and went back to what I was doing...and it shut down again.
Since then, I've found that Reed's and Mary's computers have also been shut down by the administrators because they decided that whatever they were doing was inappropriate. Which essentially means that they've spent millions of dollars on ridiculously expensive software to ensure that we're not reading gay porn. So not only are they scary right-wing fascists, they're being terribly *not* fiscally-conservative.
They could have used all the money they're using to pay for the fucking laptops to train someone to teach AP Government. Or to send us to Costa Rica. Or to buy some new lights for the theatre department.
So I was in a study hall yesterday doing research about academic perspectives of slash when my computer randomly shut down. I yelled at it, but assumed that it was just doing that because the school insisted on purchasing shitty Dell PCs instead of iBooks. So I rebooted and went back to what I was doing...and it shut down again.
Since then, I've found that Reed's and Mary's computers have also been shut down by the administrators because they decided that whatever they were doing was inappropriate. Which essentially means that they've spent millions of dollars on ridiculously expensive software to ensure that we're not reading gay porn. So not only are they scary right-wing fascists, they're being terribly *not* fiscally-conservative.
They could have used all the money they're using to pay for the fucking laptops to train someone to teach AP Government. Or to send us to Costa Rica. Or to buy some new lights for the theatre department.