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[alexseanchai]

Looking for any links you might have bookmarked on all sides of the debate about whether female slashers are appropriating gay male experiences. I'm hitting up DuckDuckGo, but that gives me oft-linked-to links, not necessarily good links, and I figure if y'all have bookmarked them they've got to be good.

(no I cannot leave well enough alone why do you ask)

(okay I think I've got enough; yay metafandom)

Comments

[deird1]

I'd start here, probably.

I've seen a lot of posts on the subject, but it's not something that I find that interesting, so I don't have any links saved. Good luck finding lots!

[alexseanchai]

Thanks!

[ratherastory]

Really? People think that? Whatever happened to writing fiction because we enjoy telling stories?

If I, as a gay female writer, choose to write about a heterosexual couple, does that mean I'm appropriating their experience? Or what if I write about a male protagonist? Or a protagonist who's from a different ethnic background? What the HELL?

Someone explain to me why suddenly I can't write the stories I want to tell because I will inevitably be appropriating someone else's experiences? This is why God invented RESEARCH, folks.

/soapbox

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, that's the other side of the debate, that gay men are policing straight and queer women's sexuality. I didn't have the words for it when I posted.