am i being sensitive?

[crankylex]

NOTE: Adult fiction of the "het" type will be accepted, but NOT slash. I repeat - NO SLASH will be accepted. Offenders will be banned at first shot. No oops, I forgot, you will be banned.

I found this in the 'welcome' notes for a fiction group.

Does this seem welcoming to you?

I realize that slash is not universally adored. I have no issue with that. I don't adore all slash myself, so why should everyone else? Nor do I subscribe to the notion that slash is inherently better written, more entertaining, more [insert adjective of choice here] than het or gen.

But the above, as a statement, seems a little too homophobic for comfort.

Is it? Or am I being overly sensitive?

Comments

[indiefic.livejournal.com]

I agree. It strikes me as very homophobic as well. Not to mention just being very negative from the get go.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I mean, who wants to be a part of something that negative from the get-go?

*shaking head*

People are strange.

Oh, and I saw a teenager at the mall this week wearing a cat's collar, complete with an ID tag. I immediately thought of you. ;-)

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Homophobic is an understatement.

Hi! Write Queer fiction? I'll shoot you! Oh, just kidding. Snerk.

Who is this bitch?

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

Hi! Write Queer fiction? I'll shoot you! Oh, just kidding. Snerk.

It actually reminded me of a comment I'd seen on a list somewhere a hundred years ago.

"I hate slash. It's just wrong. It's not that I don't like gay people, it's just I don't want to read about them."

Who says that? I mean, really, who says that? In a public forum! But then there's the part of me that would rather the homophobia be overt and out there rather than hidden and primed to come out when I least expect it. If you're going to hate me because I'm gay, I'd rather know about it in the first place.

I don't understand how they can't see the link between disliking fiction based on same sex relationship to disliking real life same sex relationships.

Who is this bitch?

I honestly don't even know. She's the mod for a list I stumbled upon while rummaging through Yahoo looking for Andromeda fic.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Yea. I'm with you.

Know your enemies.

One of the good things my Dad taught me. The other, unfortunately, was that most people are fucking morons.

I don't think I took either one to heart, tho, do you? *G*

Besides, this is also the guy who taught me How Not To Summon Demons in the Kitchen.

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

No, you're not being sensitive. It sounds rather angry to me. Like slash is a personal affront. Bah.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

Like slash is a personal affront.

What did slashers ever do to her? Attack her? Make her read fic about men kissing other men?

C'mon!