A society tends to conserve the status quo. ![]() The subversion/containment model (proposed by Foucault and applied by a bunch of New Historicist critics in the 1980s) has buried somewhere in the unexamined assumptions of its premise the notion that somehow subversion is bad. More specifically, let's talk about slash and why it is offensive and heteronormatizing to equate it with homosexual relationships. The subtext, as Giles says to Buffy in "Ted," is rapidly becoming text. My reasons for feeling as I do, explained in the following post, stem partly from my own career as a pro writer whose work features a lot of same-sex relationships, and partly from my appreciation, as a genre theorist, of the intertextual subversion inherent in what slash does. I'm arguing that slash, as a term, belongs to fanfiction, and should not be applied to works that are not fanfiction. ![]() ![]() I'm not trying to talk about what slash writers choose to do within their fandoms and communities. ETA: since metafandom has apparently linked to this post sans context, let me state explicitly that I'm talking about the MISLABELING of original fiction featuring a same-sex relationship-as for example, matociquala's Carnival-as slash in reviews and commentary by people who are not slash writers themselves.
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