wow, there's gay slash now?

[obsessive24]

Just saw a vid warning: contains gay slash and sex scenes.

Wow! There's gay slash now? As opposed to the other kind of... non-gay slash?

Comments

[anonymous]

Maybe they are distinguishing between gay slash and femme slash?

[obsessive24]

Can't discount that possibility. Personally, "gay" = "homosexual" and does not exclusively cater to men, but maybe that's just me.

[bananainpyjamas]

"Oh, so they have the internet on computers now?"

For some reason your post title reminded me of that line.

[sol_se]

That is awesome.

[obsessive24]

Bwahaha. Where's that from?

[bananainpyjamas]

Homer said it on The Simpsons. Can't remember the episode off the top of my head.

[sol_se]

Maybe they were afraid the viewer wouldn't know the term "slash," so they were just, ya know, being helpful. Or something.

I dunno. I got nothing.

[obsessive24]

Aww, that's nice! Like a wee dictionary definition right there.

[winterevanesce]

Lol, maybe they said that because some people may not know what the word "Slash" means.

[winterevanesce]

whoops, someone already mentioned this.. but anyways.. I didn't know what "Slash" mean't either until last year.. Yes, embarrassing.. *hides.. I'm very out of the loop when It comes to words or things like FTW.. It took me like 12 years to find out what 24/7 mean't.. lol, I suck..

[obsessive24]

You know what really annoys/annoyed me? I don't go around award sites anymore so I don't know if it's still the case, but a while ago a ton of vidding award sites all had "no slash allowed" in their rules. And one day I got really angry and asked one of them why they were such homophobes, and she was like "omg! Slash means gay vids? I had no idea. I just copied these rules from another site." And it turned out a whole bunch of them just copied rules from each other without even knowing what they meant. It's like... geez. Learn to think for yourself for once.

[winterevanesce]

Haha, that's funny. Thats stupid of them though. Why put that in the rules without looking it up first? I know I did all that when I was adding rules and categories for my old award site.

[kiki_miserychic]

I like my slash straight. Doesn't everyone?

I can see using "male slash" and "femslash", but gay slash? Maybe they were thinking slash meant any 'ship pairing, like it meant the actual slash mark / used in pairings like Buffy/Spike and Chuck/Blair or something.

[obsessive24]

Good theory, though the vid in point is a two-fandom crossover between two male characters, so I'm fairly sure the vidder knew it was supposed to stand for "gay". Maybe they were just making extra sure. :D

[kiki_miserychic]

Sylar in my icon thinks that being extra sure when it comes to slash earns lolz.