Comments | velocitygrass: Venting!

velocitygrass

Venting!

Jan 30, 2007 19:49

Really, yesterday afternoon I thought it was about time to be Friday. Today my bus driver drove by and didn't wait at the bus stop even though it was 5 minutes before departure time.

Now I come home surf my friends list and see there's a new community: flanigan_still

( Guess what I found in the rules? )

Comments 22

lovelokest January 30 2007, 19:16:58 UTC

Yeah, those were my thoughts exactly when I read the profile page. I was thinking about joining, but decided not to based on that.

Viva la disrespectful slashing!

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 19:50:35 UTC

I had a feeling I wouldn't be the only one. I wonder how many potential Joe icon makers will not join simply based on that one rule?

Viva la disrespectful slashing!
Indeed!

lovelokest January 30 2007, 21:10:49 UTC

*nods* Part of me wants to be really subversive and icon Family Album Lionel/the boyfriend. It isn't really slash if its canon, right?

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 21:35:46 UTC

Oh right! You're brilliant. And I have no idea if it's slash. I've read so many definitions for it and they are all different. For me slash is two people of the same sex in a romantic/sexual relationship/situation. But I've seen people say if it's canon it's not slash.

In any case, it must be hard for them to disallow something that Joe chose to play with their line of arguing. Maybe you're only allowed to icon Lionel without either of his boyfriends ;)

trobadora January 30 2007, 19:20:30 UTC

What. The. Fuck.

I can't actually recall seeing a more offensive "justification", ever.

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 20:02:20 UTC

Yes, I could hardly believe it. Or actually I could because at least one of the usernames pinged something in my memory.

I'm willing to imagine that it wasn't done to offend. They probably just didn't want the icontest to be taken over by the (admittedly predominant) slashers. So they went and made a rule and managed to phrase it in the most horrible way possible (although I shouldn't say that, I bet you could do even worse).

It's still quite annoying. Way to unite Joe lovers...

trobadora January 30 2007, 20:08:23 UTC

Yeah - I could respect it more if they just said, no slash because we don't like it. But this, using JF's alleged orientation (seriously, did they ASK him?) as an excuse... Grrr.

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 20:26:08 UTC

I could respect it more if they just said, no slash because we don't like it.
Yes. I think I still wouldn't have joined. Making it character/actor oriented, okay, I get that. But allowing het and forbidding slash? And the reasoning really was the icing on the cake. I wonder if they actually believe that or if they just felt they had to come up with some reason...

When I watch the show I have my slash goggles firmly on and see everything tinted in the beautiful color of McShep, and I can even argue my case. But when it comes down to it I know that the reason for the John/Rodney that I see is plain and simple "Because I want to see it that way".

Oh well, at least I'll have more time for other stuff.

taiteilija January 30 2007, 19:25:06 UTC

Jesus.

As if throwing Joe with a female cast member in bed was giving him respect in any way.

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 20:04:06 UTC

Well, they're not really making it about Joe/some female or Sheppard/some female, but the way they phrased it and explicitly forbit (only) slash... just argh!

berlinghoff79 January 30 2007, 19:28:22 UTC

*snorts*That's just...*shakes head*.

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 20:14:21 UTC

I guess a *snort* and a head shake is exactly the right reaction. But the way this week started I had to vent. And hey, instant commiseration ;) Isn't LJ just the greatest thing in the world!

green_grrl January 30 2007, 20:38:41 UTC

Yeah, I've seen that crap in fic archive rules, too. I get Gen, and I get people wanting a place for Het. But implying that Slash is offensive to Genners and Het is not is just... Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

velocitygrass January 30 2007, 21:54:38 UTC

Yeah, I've seen that crap in fic archive rules, too.
You mean that line of "reasoning"? I haven't so far actually (okay, maybe because I'm sticking to McShep fic, so I'm not looking for archives). I've come across a few Gen or Het or Gen/Het only fic communities, but they were nice and polite and simply said "This is a place for Gen and Het, you can find Slash elsewhere". Sometimes they even link to slash communities which I think is really nice.

But this just raised my hackles. Maybe because I was practically ready to join it when that rule came up.

green_grrl January 30 2007, 22:18:28 UTC

It has happened in SG-1 in the past -- I'm not so up on SG:A comms and archives.