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seriousficThe cycle continues and now an old issue is (re)gaining prominence, which is one of whether slash is appropriation. I don't expect it will be resolved this time, any more than it has before, since the issue is just so hard to reconcile. Since I'm neither a gay man or a slasher, I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I do have a question.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the key issue here is that gay men are upset at being treated like lipstick lesbians in a Skinemax movie. They see fangirls writing homosexuality in a way that caters to straight women and think they're being exploited by people who don't really know or care what their lives are really like.
So, if that's the case with gay men and slash, what about non-con? What about chan?
Let's say a kink meme shows up and someone writes a fic about, I don't know, John Winchester and 11-year-old Dean seducing him (it could happen, it's Supernatural fandom). Obviously, this doesn't bear much relation to real child molestation. So, does the author bear a responsibility to reflect the reality of child abuse or is it just kinky fun?
Same question with non-con, or to put it bluntly, rape. It goes without saying that no one is going to respond to a rape by saying "Well, that was a bloody good time!" or by admitting that they were actually in love with their rapist and it just took a healthy dose of surprise sex to make them see it. So do non-con fics marginalize the feelings of real-life rape victims, or even play into misogynistic attitudes like "she was asking for it"?
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the key issue here is that gay men are upset at being treated like lipstick lesbians in a Skinemax movie. They see fangirls writing homosexuality in a way that caters to straight women and think they're being exploited by people who don't really know or care what their lives are really like.
So, if that's the case with gay men and slash, what about non-con? What about chan?
Let's say a kink meme shows up and someone writes a fic about, I don't know, John Winchester and 11-year-old Dean seducing him (it could happen, it's Supernatural fandom). Obviously, this doesn't bear much relation to real child molestation. So, does the author bear a responsibility to reflect the reality of child abuse or is it just kinky fun?
Same question with non-con, or to put it bluntly, rape. It goes without saying that no one is going to respond to a rape by saying "Well, that was a bloody good time!" or by admitting that they were actually in love with their rapist and it just took a healthy dose of surprise sex to make them see it. So do non-con fics marginalize the feelings of real-life rape victims, or even play into misogynistic attitudes like "she was asking for it"?
