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asimplechord) wrote2010-10-07 02:22 pm
asimplechord) wrote2010-10-07 02:22 pm
Excuse me while I rant
From an Out interview re: slash fanfiction.
In Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America, academic Constance Penley asks the obvious question: Why are women fans so alienated from their own bodies that they can write erotic fantasies only in relation to a non-female body? She surmises that perhaps men’s bodies are simply easier to fantasize with because they aren’t the legal, moral, religious battleground that women’s bodies are.
While I know organic sexual preferences are neither elective nor politically motivated, I couldn’t help but feel, as a heterosexual female, that there was something self-assassinating and a little bit politically disturbing about the M/M fiction I read.
I haven't read Penley's work before, and am not clear why this should be the direction the journalist takes this article.
But I have to ask... does anyone ask a straight man why he's so alienated from his body if he gets off on f/f porn? REALLY?
Once again, main-stream media makes fandom look stupid.
>>>>>:/
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In Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America, academic Constance Penley asks the obvious question: Why are women fans so alienated from their own bodies that they can write erotic fantasies only in relation to a non-female body? She surmises that perhaps men’s bodies are simply easier to fantasize with because they aren’t the legal, moral, religious battleground that women’s bodies are.
While I know organic sexual preferences are neither elective nor politically motivated, I couldn’t help but feel, as a heterosexual female, that there was something self-assassinating and a little bit politically disturbing about the M/M fiction I read.
I haven't read Penley's work before, and am not clear why this should be the direction the journalist takes this article.
But I have to ask... does anyone ask a straight man why he's so alienated from his body if he gets off on f/f porn? REALLY?
Once again, main-stream media makes fandom look stupid.
>>>>>:/
This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/6410.html.
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This brings to mind last year's Survey!Fail debacle, in which the "researchers" could only compare straight women's fascination with m/m erotica to a straight male being attracted to a transgendered person. It never frickin' occurred to them to compare it to the fascination straight men hold for f/f erotica. I wanted to knock their heads together and yell, "Big red truck!"
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It's just so ridiculous that this sort of double standard still exists. Ridiculous and demoralizing.