For the Ficcers

[thebitterguy]

Via autodidactic, an essay on Slash fiction:

A pornographer rebellion. A slash article that references Andrea Dworkin.

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Interesting, but no mention of Queer as Folk (with a highly straight female demographic) nor femslash (which I have written).

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

It's always kind of funny to read stuff like this and then compare it to the words from the mouths of the authors.

"So what textual deconstruction were you employing when you created this narrative?"

"I liked the idea of steamy Riku-on-Sora mansmex." ::shrug::

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of a great many other critical commentaries on any kind of artwork contrasted with the words of the artists themselves.

Compare what Jackson Pollock says about his work with what various critics (including his greatest champion Clement Greenberg) have to say about it.

I've read analyses of his work that state that there is no context or meaning at all beyond the aesthetic, analyses that his work is designed to support communist revolution (the critic himself supported that ideology, btw), others that take the reverse position... and most of these critics almost entirely ignore the artist's own statements.

I'm not saying that artists or writers are always entirely honest or aware of the reasons for what they do, or that this writer is wrong. I am saying that it pays to look deeper than one critic or academic's stance... but given that I have no interest in slash, I'll leave that looking to others.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

You need to put the Dworkin part in context when you post stuff like this -- soon as I see that name I want to run screaming to the nearest adult video store.

I have arguments against just about everything in that article, but we've already gone through a general slash kerfuffle this year, so I'm not going to bother. :P

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

The temptation to flame is great. Very great. Instead I will offer constructive criticism.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I note her paper conveniently leaves out any comparison of slash to the massive section of the loathesome pornography industry devoted to gay men. Big gap, that.