am i being sensitive?
Oct. 27th, 2002 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankylexNOTE: 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?
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?
