oh academia, one day you will write what you know

[eva_kasumi]

I've been reading scholarly articles on slash and fandom all day (for an epic paper that's due in a week, oh damn) and I have seen many and sometimes varied inaccurate and groundless generalizations about the membership of slash fandom as a whole. But I just now discovered the narrowest and most hilarious of them all: slashers are "almost

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[vyctori]

...What about overeducated but underemployed bisexual women?

[eva_kasumi]

Don't be silly, everyone knows all slashers are inexperienced heterosexual teenage girls and housewives!

[urbanberber]

askdhfa HAHA oh man, where are you reading these? You should drop some lolzy links if you find any more gems. <3

[eva_kasumi]

These are ACTUAL PUBLISHED SCHOLARLY ARTICLES. Seriously. Citation for this particular one: Kustritz, Anne. "Slashing the Romance Narrative." The Journal of American Culture 26.3: 2003. Pages 371-384. http://www.laurientaylor.org/research/sources/slashfic.pdf

seriousleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[nalanzu]

Dear god. That's hilarious. :D

...we get to see this alleged paper when you finish, yeah?

[eva_kasumi]

Abso-lutely!

[dracothelizard]

Ooooh, have they got any ridiculous claims as to WHY heterosexual women slash?

[eva_kasumi]

Oh do they EVER. They actually have some pretty good interpretations, too, but I think the whole thing is kind of bungled by them not actually being "insiders" and for most of these studies having been conducted about twenty years ago. =|