Can I get back to you later with that? Right now it's more of a gut reaction and nothing thought through...
E.g., there's this discussion about how historically accurate m/m romance should be. OTOH the argument that you should be respectful and write it realistically and not gloss over the struggles that gay men had to go through makes a lot of sense. OTOH, if you look at it from the perspective that straight women are writing this and straight women are (putting it directly) getting off on it, sexually, emotionally or both, it makes the insistence on all that struggle and the fact that what was very real suffering is essentially used to make a romance novel a bit spicier and edgier rather problematic.
I really don't know. I've slashed book characters and TV characters in my head long before I found out that there was a word for it. A lot of my favourite authors are gay, and have been since I was a teenager. Is this even connected? Am I being creepy and appropriating? I hope not, but there's this lingering, vague guilt...
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E.g., there's this discussion about how historically accurate m/m romance should be. OTOH the argument that you should be respectful and write it realistically and not gloss over the struggles that gay men had to go through makes a lot of sense. OTOH, if you look at it from the perspective that straight women are writing this and straight women are (putting it directly) getting off on it, sexually, emotionally or both, it makes the insistence on all that struggle and the fact that what was very real suffering is essentially used to make a romance novel a bit spicier and edgier rather problematic.
I really don't know. I've slashed book characters and TV characters in my head long before I found out that there was a word for it. A lot of my favourite authors are gay, and have been since I was a teenager. Is this even connected? Am I being creepy and appropriating? I hope not, but there's this lingering, vague guilt...