Having said that, however, I would still refer to Willow/Tara fanfic as "slash" just because it's a handy label. Imagine fic written before Willow and Tara's relationship was made canon, or fic with Angel/Spike written before Joss confirmed they'd slept together -- do we label those stories "slash" or not?
By calling all same-sex relationships in fiction "slash," we're allowing an implicit assumption that all same-sex relationships are fictional
I can't agree with this. I realise we can't always control doublethink, but IMHO the opposite is happening, and that the more gay relationships are being written about in canon, the more slash is "proved" as equal to any subtextual het relationship that may or may not become canon. Pairing A/B becomes just as likely as Pairing A/C to happen, and we approach the text as such.
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Re: Ignore my previous comments!
Date: 2006-12-19 06:17 pm (UTC)By calling all same-sex relationships in fiction "slash," we're allowing an implicit assumption that all same-sex relationships are fictional
I can't agree with this. I realise we can't always control doublethink, but IMHO the opposite is happening, and that the more gay relationships are being written about in canon, the more slash is "proved" as equal to any subtextual het relationship that may or may not become canon. Pairing A/B becomes just as likely as Pairing A/C to happen, and we approach the text as such.