[fandom] Baby-Sitters Club slash
I have insomnia.
I also have thinky thoughts about The Baby-Sitters Club and why a fandom based on a book series about eight girls (plus two associate members, only one of whom is a male) has so much more boy slash than girl slash. I think this says something about the way fans treat women, but I'm not quite sure yet which words I want to use.
But seriously. Most of the slash fic I see is one of the triplets and Jeff (or Nicky and Jeff). The series is about eight female baby-sitters (nine if you count Shannon, who wasn't the focus of very many stories, but was still a member from early on), and yet the fanfic focuses on the male charges.
I wonder if it has something to do with the age of the people writing fic now? Where they closer to the charges' ages when reading it, and therefore were more interested in them? That might be part of it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Why so much boy slash instead of girl slash in that fandom? My inquiring mind wants to know.
I also have thinky thoughts about The Baby-Sitters Club and why a fandom based on a book series about eight girls (plus two associate members, only one of whom is a male) has so much more boy slash than girl slash. I think this says something about the way fans treat women, but I'm not quite sure yet which words I want to use.
But seriously. Most of the slash fic I see is one of the triplets and Jeff (or Nicky and Jeff). The series is about eight female baby-sitters (nine if you count Shannon, who wasn't the focus of very many stories, but was still a member from early on), and yet the fanfic focuses on the male charges.
I wonder if it has something to do with the age of the people writing fic now? Where they closer to the charges' ages when reading it, and therefore were more interested in them? That might be part of it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Why so much boy slash instead of girl slash in that fandom? My inquiring mind wants to know.