more femslash please

[anotheranon]

Found thru fanthropology: Fanfiction Comes Out of the Closet from afterellen.com. What slash is, why there's more m/m than femslash, the role of the internet, more linkage.

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[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

Interesting link. Someday I want to write a paper about women writing m/m is a feminist statement.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

How do you reckon? If you do end up writing a paper on this I'd love to see it :)

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

My theory is that women writing m/m slash are claiming sexual rhetoric; like they are making pornography their own. I haven't done too much research on it yet. I'll let you know when I do!

(The weird thing is, I want to write about this, but I'm not into m/m, I'd much rather read femme stuff!)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I'm no expert on fanfic, but I would imagine anyone writing smut using borrowed characters - whether those characters are m/m, m/f, f/f, or any other geometric combination - can be said to be making their own porn. Do you think m/m makes more of a statement than other kinds of erotic writing? Not criticizing, just curious.

I also read an article somewhere (link escapes me, unfortunately) that women enjoy writing m/m because from the outside a relationship between two men seems more egalitarian than anything they've read or experienced with m/f pairings.

I'd love to read why you love femme stuff! My own tastes run the gamut - I enjoy reading about just about any pairing or combination as long as it's well written and the characters are interesting enough to care about.

[zen4me.livejournal.com]

heh...femmeslash rules! gonna read the link when i get home, it looks interesting.