I whole heartedly agree with you and admire the way you've formalized the issue simply and elegantly. I always felt the same way without managing to word it in a way that wouldn't sound like the typically homophobic "they're not gay they're just in love"
Slash is about the subversion, definitly... that's why the logics of incest, antagonistic shipping, crossgen (some of it, at least) and others obey to the same logic as slash. It's about eroticizing a relationship and exploring through the means of sex a relationship that is not, as standing, a relationship fit for romance. I would say that slash is definitly queer, but it's not the same thing as writing gay love stories & erotica. Without the transformating operation of slash (the famous slash googles, the shift of perception which produces such please to slash fen), it doesn't actually feel like slash to me.
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Date: 2006-12-19 05:15 pm (UTC)I whole heartedly agree with you and admire the way you've formalized the issue simply and elegantly. I always felt the same way without managing to word it in a way that wouldn't sound like the typically homophobic "they're not gay they're just in love"
Slash is about the subversion, definitly... that's why the logics of incest, antagonistic shipping, crossgen (some of it, at least) and others obey to the same logic as slash. It's about eroticizing a relationship and exploring through the means of sex a relationship that is not, as standing, a relationship fit for romance. I would say that slash is definitly queer, but it's not the same thing as writing gay love stories & erotica. Without the transformating operation of slash (the famous slash googles, the shift of perception which produces such please to slash fen), it doesn't actually feel like slash to me.