My thoughts on Femslash
There's been a lot of discussion of why femslash isn't as popular as slash. It seems to baffle some folk that slash can be so popular in the realms of fandom. What especially confuses them is how fangirls who claim to be more interested in the ladies than the dudes could possibly prefer male/male slash as opposed to female/female femslash (kept in
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Oh, hey, I almost forgot about this part! I saw a case of this just yesterday. The book is Prison Ship and is exactly what it says on the tin: it's set on a spaceship which is basically a big, self-contained prison. All the prisoners are male. All the staff are (officially) male. Its secret mission is to get some sort-of-ex-military guys (officially cashiered but on call for special occasions) into position for an off-the-books mission. The military forces of the various interplanetary governments range from mostly male to all male. And the people organizing this thought it would be a great idea to sneak in exactly ONE female agent disguised as a (young and slender, of course) man. The set-up is one of the very few that even I have to admit makes an all-male cast completely justified. Seriously, if I were an officer in charge of making this mission work, I would say, for perhaps the first and only time in my life, "We need a man for this job. The woman you're considering has excellent qualifications, but I must insist for her own good that we assign her elsewhere." But this contrived one-woman-on-a-ship-full-of-men scenario had to happen or else the hero would have spent a long time on a prison ship with hundreds of men and absolutely no women . . . and that would be skirting too close to non-heterosexual possibilities.
[Icon used deliberately, because as much as I love 7 and appreciate 7/9 a lot more than most main character/token girl pairings, I can't deny that the very combination of sexism and homophobia you described probably played a big role in the voice casting.]
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Definately didn't happen. /Kate Beaten comic reference
I just had a thought about the casting madness. What if they got a woman to voice 2 instead of a man? Eccentric genius woman having an affair with her young male apprentice? Hurm...8)
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