See, and I think exactly the opposite -- that this type of slash is a throwback to the hoariest old Victorian ideals, with a healthy dose of Victorian racial/sexual/gender standards thrown in for good measure.
Yes! I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with every comment you've made here. And this is as a slash fan who reads almost exclusively slash (I go to original fiction for hetero relationships) and cannot stand most 98% of slash, so I don't have a lot of fanfic to enjoy period.
For many it's like... one of those low-fat, LITE! desserts. Indulge in all of these oppressive ideals with none of the guilt. It's enraging sometimes how so many folks can have two guys fucking in the most oppressively heternormative relationships ever and there are still no women about!
Then you got all the people who are like, don't judge my kink! But kinda like how their slash dynamics tend to be ridiculously heterosexual, their kink dynamics are ridiculously vanilla, as there tends to be little willingness to negotiate the issues of power and consent. I think more slash would be a lot less horrible if they reframed some of these cliches away from a simple regurgitation of our societies' oppressive institutions and Harlequin romance novels, and more towards self-aware kink spaces like feminization, power play, age play, mpreg-as-a-kink, etc., as well as actual queerness. But then that would require an explicit exploration of female sexuality (and how it is constructed in society) on the author's part, which is exactly what this kind of slash is an escape from.
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Date: 2007-10-23 09:09 pm (UTC)Yes! I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with every comment you've made here. And this is as a slash fan who reads almost exclusively slash (I go to original fiction for hetero relationships) and cannot stand most 98% of slash, so I don't have a lot of fanfic to enjoy period.
For many it's like... one of those low-fat, LITE! desserts. Indulge in all of these oppressive ideals with none of the guilt. It's enraging sometimes how so many folks can have two guys fucking in the most oppressively heternormative relationships ever and there are still no women about!
Then you got all the people who are like, don't judge my kink! But kinda like how their slash dynamics tend to be ridiculously heterosexual, their kink dynamics are ridiculously vanilla, as there tends to be little willingness to negotiate the issues of power and consent. I think more slash would be a lot less horrible if they reframed some of these cliches away from a simple regurgitation of our societies' oppressive institutions
and Harlequin romance novels, and more towards self-aware kink spaces like feminization, power play, age play, mpreg-as-a-kink, etc., as well as actual queerness. But then that would require an explicit exploration of female sexuality (and how it is constructed in society) on the author's part, which is exactly what this kind of slash is an escape from.