a fandom-ish thought for 12:43 AM
Erg, this is a sign that I should go to bed, but this has been lingering in the back of my thoughts for a while.
Fandom, I feel fully confident in saying, is a very open place. We write stories about gay sex, whereas most of society has yet to fully accept homosexuality. We write stories about S&M and all sorts of kinky things, not to mention men getting pregnant (never mind that it is biologically impossible), whereas most of society has never even contemplated the idea of mpreg. And we write stories about abuse, rape, and physical/mental torture, and while fandom doesn't in any way condone any kind of behaviour like that in RL, you have to admit that we, as fandomers, are very loose about it all.
But there's one topic that fandom hasn't approached, that it hasn't even discussed (at least to the best of my knowledge) - abortion. Abortions aren't rare - a large percentage of women in the world have had them. There are characters in fics that use contraceptives, Muggle or magical, yet when was the last time you stumbled upon a hypothetical Hermione anxiously waiting outside a clinic, fully aware she is carrying the spawn of, say, Voldemort in her womb?
That many consider abortion a tragedy has nothing to do with the fact that it's never appeared in fic. We write about tragedies all the time, so I wonder, why is it that abortion has been so avoided as a subject of fanfiction?
*stops rambling and slinks off to bed now*
Signing off, V.M. Bell
Fandom, I feel fully confident in saying, is a very open place. We write stories about gay sex, whereas most of society has yet to fully accept homosexuality. We write stories about S&M and all sorts of kinky things, not to mention men getting pregnant (never mind that it is biologically impossible), whereas most of society has never even contemplated the idea of mpreg. And we write stories about abuse, rape, and physical/mental torture, and while fandom doesn't in any way condone any kind of behaviour like that in RL, you have to admit that we, as fandomers, are very loose about it all.
But there's one topic that fandom hasn't approached, that it hasn't even discussed (at least to the best of my knowledge) - abortion. Abortions aren't rare - a large percentage of women in the world have had them. There are characters in fics that use contraceptives, Muggle or magical, yet when was the last time you stumbled upon a hypothetical Hermione anxiously waiting outside a clinic, fully aware she is carrying the spawn of, say, Voldemort in her womb?
That many consider abortion a tragedy has nothing to do with the fact that it's never appeared in fic. We write about tragedies all the time, so I wonder, why is it that abortion has been so avoided as a subject of fanfiction?
*stops rambling and slinks off to bed now*
Signing off, V.M. Bell