As a het writer, I have to say that I never noticed het writers being vociferous about being squicked about slash. That said, I hang with open-minded, accepting folk. I don't have time or patience for homophobia or intolerance of any kind, and the het writers I've always hung with either also write slash (like I do) or are completely slash-friendly.
I will say that I have personally (not heard about, but personally) encountered female male/male slash writers who describe female genitalia as gross, yucky, disgusting, and icky to write about. I find this to be a subtle form of self-loathing and misogyny, and I don't think it's healthy. I think it's 1000 percent totally fine to prefer slash over het as erotica; there's entirely nothing wrong with that. But to describe women as icky, gross, disgusting, etc, isn't any better than homophobic het writers who are intolerant toward queers or anyone in the LGBTQ community. Neither are acceptable, IMO.
It's a peeve of mine, admittedly. I also don't think that preferring het fic to slash fic implies homophobia or intolerance. As a heterosexual female myself, yeah, I want to read the boy/girl stuff too. By that I mean male/female, not boy/girl as in kids.
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Date: 2011-04-02 03:57 pm (UTC)I will say that I have personally (not heard about, but personally) encountered female male/male slash writers who describe female genitalia as gross, yucky, disgusting, and icky to write about. I find this to be a subtle form of self-loathing and misogyny, and I don't think it's healthy. I think it's 1000 percent totally fine to prefer slash over het as erotica; there's entirely nothing wrong with that. But to describe women as icky, gross, disgusting, etc, isn't any better than homophobic het writers who are intolerant toward queers or anyone in the LGBTQ community. Neither are acceptable, IMO.
It's a peeve of mine, admittedly. I also don't think that preferring het fic to slash fic implies homophobia or intolerance. As a heterosexual female myself, yeah, I want to read the boy/girl stuff too. By that I mean male/female, not boy/girl as in kids.