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Tweak says, "I'm just a sweet transvestite!"

fairestcat (fairestcat) wrote in metafandom,
@ 2008-05-28 22:54:00

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

circa_eve: Several conversations I've had in the pa - We are at an interesting point in TV where gay relationships are just starting to appear on mainstream TV, but it's still "edgy" and the writers are unable to really back up these relationships. They end up existing, but getting less screen time, being mo -
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Posting my comment here so as not to lose it...

yonmei
2008-06-05 04:11 am UTC (link)

You know, I actually went there and composed a response and posted it... without realising I'd accidentally gone over to livejournal? *facepalm* Never mind.

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Once these relationships become more common, and move from edgy to mundane, will slash fandom still exist?

Why wouldn't it?

It's true, slash fandom began as a separate fandom because of homophobia/heterosexism on the part of mainstream fandom: but while you still get people like that (see the number of fans who freaked out when Willow/Tara went from subtext to text) they lack the fannish societal approval they used to have: it's no longer considered just and right that a homophobe or a heterosexist fan should be able to wall off all same-sex relationships from their fandom into an enclosed enclave.

Now the enclave exists more as a walled garden - a convenient place for people who enjoy same-sex relationships to find what we enjoy reading. For some fans, it may still seem edgy and subversive to enter this walled garden and smell the flowers, but for some of us, it was like coming home.

I have a more complex response to this, actually - maybe I'll post about it at more length on my own journal.
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