http://slytherincesss.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] slytherincesss.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] hd_writers 2011-04-02 04:17 pm (UTC)

I thought a lot about what you said re: getting annoying reviews and I just wanted to offer another POV. I think it's easy to delete a stupid review, either from your inbox or from ff.net (at least I know at Skyehawke you can delete reviews; I personally don't delete reviews, but I know it's possible). But it's not easy for our LBGTQ brothers and sisters to gain tolerance. A way we can help increase tolerance for the LGBTQ community is to not feed into homophobia. Warning for slash and femslash implies that there is something deviant about the acts, when really they are natural, normal expressions of love, lust, whatever. They're no more or less normal than het. We can help to build tolerance by refusing to play party to homophobia. I think that is worth putting up with the occasional ridiculous review from someone who is intolerant. Maybe it's annoying to get those kind of reviews, but it's really way more annoying to be gay or bi or transsexual and have to deal with real, in-your-face, daily intolerance, hatred, and misrepresentation. If we're going to dip into LGBTQ for erotic purposes -- especially if we, the writers, are straight (which not all are, of course) -- then I think we owe the LBGTQ communities the courtesy of not apologizing for representing their very normal sexual behavior. The LGBTQ community, I think, is not here for our enjoyment or for titillation purposes; they're our fellow human beings who deserve to be appreciated and protected, and one very small way we can help to do that is to reconsider whether "slash" or "femslash" is a deviance that needs warnings. Yeah, we may have to deal with the occasional stupid review, but it sure beats having to live a life where we're constantly being demonized for being born queer or transsexual. Truly, this is just food for thought -- I'm not trying to jump your shit, I promise. Hopefully it won't be taken that way :)

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