The Tenth

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

She plays slash if it's canon. The issue for her isn't homophobia it's changing the canon sexualities of characters. Which annoys me! But it's not homophobia, jfc.

[(Anonymous)]

assuming characters are straight by default = a form of homophobia

just because a character only has encounters with the opposite sex doesn't mean they can only be straight ever ever ever

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I mean...look what happened with Willow :| speaking of Buffy and all.

-1

[(Anonymous)]

Oh then I guess we can assume that just because a gay character only has encounters with the same sex, doesn't mean they can only be gay ever ever ever.

Which personally as a gay person myself I'm perfectly okay with, because I understand that sexuality is pretty fluid (even though I'm not much of a non-canon slash shipper myself). But oh-em-gee. Anyone who even did this or admitted to doing this publicly would just be lampooned as a homophobe propagating gay erasure.

Double standards. Hth.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

nope.jpg

also, double standards only work when concepts are on an equal playing field. there are plenty of canon "heterosexuals," but few canon homosexuals.

think about this, anon. it's not hard.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

The reason it is ok to go one way and not the other is because straight people have no lack of character they can identify, and every other, I hate to use the word because it has become so diluted, but privileged around.

When gay people are on equal ground as straight people, and there is a fair representation of gay characters and isn't a huge, homophobic push to erase gay characters or queer readings of gay character then you are absolutely right that it should go both ways. When someone does something well thought out I haven't seen them wanked on (Or, actually, been wanked on myself the one time I did it. In a slash predominated rp) but the things is...most don't.

hth.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

does help actually. that's a really good explanation.

Re: nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad!

The concepts themselves are on even ground in a cultural vacuum. We just don't live in one.

Hopefully one day we'll get to the point where it doesn't matter and we can all happily wank about new things and it won't be a short slippery slope between exploring an interesting angle and being a homophobe.