The more I think about it the more I think I've just developed very, very low standards for overgeneralisation in "why we slash" meta. At least she acknowledged that non-slashers exist!
Yeah. The particular debate I was following was focused on sexually explicit material, so that topic didn't really come up, but I agree that the broader question is just as important, and a much harder one to dismiss as personal preference a la kinks, sexual turn-ons, etc.
*nods* I mean, I have heard some quite compelling reasons why some authors prefer m/m even for less explicit stories. You can't shame people into preferring stories about women, and trying will just make them annoyed and upset. But smug, illogical, dismissive self justifications for not even questioning the popularity of stories about men (or holding them up as somehow MORE PROGRESSIVE than stories about women or for that matter non binary gendered people) really get my goat.
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Yeah. The particular debate I was following was focused on sexually explicit material, so that topic didn't really come up, but I agree that the broader question is just as important, and a much harder one to dismiss as personal preference a la kinks, sexual turn-ons, etc.
*nods* I mean, I have heard some quite compelling reasons why some authors prefer m/m even for less explicit stories. You can't shame people into preferring stories about women, and trying will just make them annoyed and upset. But smug, illogical, dismissive self justifications for not even questioning the popularity of stories about men (or holding them up as somehow MORE PROGRESSIVE than stories about women or for that matter non binary gendered people) really get my goat.