Excuse me while I rant
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asimplechordFrom 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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Date: 2010-10-07 08:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-10-08 03:43 am (UTC)I am becoming... increasingly easily infuriated by this attitude that if something is enjoyed by men there is no need to question it (they're the default, donchya know?), but if women enjoy it, it must be pulled apart and analysed - a REASON must be found! ('cos obviously something's gone wrong somewhere)
Also, I love your Misha icon. :D
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Date: 2010-10-08 05:36 am (UTC)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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