Newsflash:

[ladydreamer]

Slash fandom isn't entirely composed of straight women.

There are lesbians. (whooo, scary) They exist.

There are bisexuals. They exist too.

And there are some gay men and bisexual men, too.

Furthermore, it is NOT an INSULT to read someone as gay. It is not an insult to read a character as gay. There is nothing wrong with "making" characters gay. Just because a character has never been seen buttfucking a man doesn't mean he couldn't be bisexual, closeted, or clueless. Just because a woman has only had relationship with men up to a certain point doesn't mean that she isn't actually a lesbian and, due to the nature of the way we propagate backward ideas of gender, never realized it until she was quite older.

She could also be, I dunno, to some degree bisexual and decide that she prefers her relationships with one or the other. However, if she does settle down with one gender, that doesn't make her STOP being bisexual.

Additionally, daring to write gay issues doesn't make you gay. Even if it did, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

There are days when it doesn't pay to be enlightened.

Decent article; jackassian comments--
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195963

Comments

[ellie]

Some of the comments made me .... ack! I miss my kill file. In the days of newsgroups you can set up a kill file and you wouldn't have to read any post from people that make your blood pressure sky rock.

[ladydreamer]

That would have been very helpful.

[shopfront]

Slash fandom isn't entirely composed of straight women.

Probably the most irritating assumption I see when non-fen (and fen too, on a smaller but surprisingly annoying scale) talking about boyslash fandom.

And those comments remind me why I semi-regularly claim to hate humanity.

But! There are lesbians. (whooo, scary) - made me laugh. So thank you for that, heh.

[ladydreamer]

Irritating, and persistent, no matter how often I mention how queer I am.

It's boy funny and annoying how tenacious the evol lesbian trope is.