Slut!Seamus and other ships

[jeffl1965]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy Rizzo" <tammy at m...> 
wrote:
> Pippin wrote:
> > 
> > > A US writer would probably be  aware that depicting a black 
male as
> > > promiscuous would open a whole can of cultural worms. They 
might not
> > > want to go there.
> 
> And Cindy asked:
> > Hmmm.  I never considered that.  Do you think it is taboo in the 
U.S.
> > against depicting black men as promiscuous?  Why would this be 
so, do
> > you think?
> 
> Now I (Tammy) say:
> Black males have had a long history of being stereotyped as both 
extremely virile 
> and quite promiscuous, and while they may want to keep the 'virile' 
image, there's 
> been a lot of effort lately to downplay the 'promiscuous' image, 
even so far as 
> having megameetings of hundreds of thousands of black men who have 
publicly 
> sworn fidelity to their families.
> 
> Toss a Slut!Dean on that, from a US writer, and there would be a 
(small, in fanfic 
> circles, but definite) backlash of some sort.  Hardly rioting in 
the streets, but 
> certainly SOME backlash.  Email bombs, bubotuber pus attacks, 
things like that.
> 
> ***
> Tammy
> tammy at m...


  Jeff:

    True, there might not be rioting, but only as long as the media 
doesn't mention Slut!Dean the next time they do a report on the Slash 
Genre in Harry Potter. :) I should also mention that I don't live 
anywhere near California, but that if the local press mentioned Slut!
Dean, there would be a possibility of riots or some kind of gang-
related retaliation. It's really sad. 


   Jeff