Not dead. Just sleeping.

[septemberoses]

I'm at a bit of an impasse after The Dark Fic and Coda.  I'm trying to work on the Carsten follow-up in Copenhagen, which I'd been working on (a Godric/Eric/Carsten threesome!) but now Eric and Godric have gotten into an argument about Godric's work as an inquisitor, and it needs some rewriting to make it less … alarming?  Or something.  I'm stuck

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[havocs_roman]

For many open-minded women, what could be hotter than two men having sex?

Two men having sex who don't mind letting me watch.

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

Generally speaking, I think the TV/film Powers That Be - not the actual creative parties, just the people with the money and the power - tend to be conservative straight men, who are somehow still convinced the only relevant audience for TV/film work is equally straight and male. Hence the wealth of straight male-oriented material out there (from actual porn to so-common-it's-become-mainstream lingering, gratuitous shots on the bodies of Megan Fox & Co in "regular" movies). I think the fact that women are taking over men (in numbers and in buying power) in most western societies is simply not being acknowledged.

Thus we have hilarious phenomena like Twilight--whatever my personal problems with that series, and I have MANY, it's clearly a straight female fantasy of a perfect life with a perfect man (or what its author PERCEIVES as a perfect man), and it's interesting to me - once I get over my blind rage over the underlying themes of the series - that most MALE criticism of the series revolves, not around the portrait of women or the wildly romanticised (for a certain value of "romanticised) relationship, but rather on the outrageousness of the concept of a perfect male. Women have been subjected to (and pressured by) media concepts of unattainable female models for as long as media has been around, but Twilight is (sadly) a rare mainstream example of the opposite, and The Males That Be simply, obviously, can't handle the pressure being turned onto them. Whereas we, women, focus on the brainwashing the series has somehow performed on women of all ages, and how scary it is that TwiMoms, being supposedly experienced ADULTS, don't recognise the emotional abuse in Bella/Edward, men rage at the concept that these mothers DARE have an interest beyond caring for their husbands and offspring they feel strongly about, as though that in itself is reproachable.

Then they marvel at the goldmine that is women wanting to read/see Twilight and wonder loudly about where this great demographic came from, when we've been here all along and they had just failed notice it. That said, some of us are STILL here, money unspent, because our fantasies don't exactly come true with Twilight--but some other, healthier female-oriented phenomenon will come along, and then we'll have a new wave of powerful men wondering where this NEW demographic crawled in from. Once you stop raging, it's all quite hilarious, really.

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[septemberoses]

Huh. Okay, I guess I was so busy stumbling over my own issues with Twilight the book/movie that I'd never even stopped to consider what issues, if any, that males were having with it.

So you are saying that men object to the idea of the so-called Perfect Man? Or is the problem that the Perfect Man is apparently celibate by choice? Damn, I'm laughing at myself, it's so hard for me to discuss this without my jaw tensing up. I have huge issues with what I perceive as the messages to young women there ... okay, stopping now. Also, Edward vs. Eric? Noooo contest.