Slash and parenting was Re: Responses to

[Ebony <selah_1977@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999 <foxmoth at q...>" 
<foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> Me:
> I think this is overstating the case. An irrational dislike is 
*not* the same as a phobia. A phobia is pathological. Furthermore I 
> don't think that one can extrapolate from reading material to real 
> life.
> 
> For example, I dislike the  Harry/Hermione pairing. I avoid it in 
> fics because a) it doesn't turn me on, and it annoys me to "read 
> diagonally" (what a wonderful phrase!) paragraphs of "pumpkin 
> pie"  obviously intended for that purpose, and b) it reads OOC to 
> me. Plenty of people have told me this is irrational <g>. 

*pipes up with a grin*  Like me?


> I don't deny it, but I don't think it means I'm diseased. It 
doesn't 
> carry over to real life, AFAIK. Many delightful people have real-
life 
> relationships very similar to the imagined H/H pairing and I don't 
> avoid or fear them in any way. They just don't remind me of Harry 
> and Hermione at all.

But you wouldn't go as far as to tell your son not to read H/H 
fanfiction that was age-appropriate, would you?  I mean, I don't have 
quite your H/H reaction on my part to R/H (as after all, I have 
written that ship), but a few of my students do read R/H fanfiction 
and enjoy it.  And you know that I love writing and reading H/H 
stories, but you don't hate me for it... you even beta-read, and I 
value what you've done for it.

OTOH, what we're talking here is a real bias that seems to affect the 
judgment and good sense of others.  I think what everyone is picking 
up on is that the anti-slash diatribe is indicative of other, more 
serious factors... just as in the shipping debates of the past three 
years, we've posited that the het ship dichotomy is indicative of 
more than just who we want Hermione to end up with, but of how we 
read and see life.  However in this case it is far more serious... 
and I doubt that a rational discourse can even happen at this point, 
as long as the issues inherent loom larger than just a simple 
children's series.

--Eb, going to bed.