The development of slash

[alicambs]

Online fan fiction puts a new spin on old relationships is an interesting piece about the development of slash from pre Internet days

Comments

[kittyfisher]

Gee, and what about all the dykes? Oh, bad bad bad research!

[alicambs]

Gee, and what about all the dykes?

Invisible? I'd guess that would be a hurdle too far for the author since he seems pretty astonished by us 'seemingly' well adjusted het women. It would, though, have been interesting to see how he'd describe lesbians who read and write m/m slash as well as the f/f writers and readers (not that f/f was never mentioned).

[sobelle]

Well adjusted?

Well... I've never been called well adjusted...

It's such a new concept that I'm not sure how I feel about it...

Will report later when it sinks in...

Bwhahahaaa!

[alicambs]

I feel for you! *g*

I've never been called well adjusted either, but I'm still highly amused by the insulting 'seemingly'. I kind of guess that when things get out of people's comfort zones they have to find some type of explanation for what they consider aberant behaviour. More power to us for screwing with their nice safe assumptions and expectations, and screw 'well adjusted'. *veg*

[kitzen_kat]

Well-adjusted? How disappointing. I was waiting for people to find out that we're all perverted fetishists.

[alicambs]

I think the 'seemingly' suggests that we are really. Anyway, it's so much more fun to be a perverted fetishist (what fetish are we perverting over?) that a well adjusted heterosexual woman. I mean that's plain boring. *g*