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[reenka]

Am I the only one who's offended by all the "warning: homosexual content" or "warning: slash" labels on stories and certain films/anime & things? Isn't that basically pandering to homophobes or something? I just don't get that. What's with the warning of messed-up bigoted morons, anyway?


"I'm sorry, you're a bigoted freak who's been brainwashed by society into hating people. If I offend your delicate repressed sensibilities, I'm terribly sorry, don't be mad. Don't yell at me if my bad, scary boyporn makes you want to, oh, I don't know, be gay yourself. Not my fault. Didn't mean it."

I'm so, so sick of it. I've actually seen a review of a shounen-ai anime saying something like, it's a good "non-graphic" depiction of boylove but still, "homophobes might want to steer clear". What the hell?

Personally, I ain't apologizing for a single thing. If some bigoted freak wanted to flame me 'cause they weren't expecting to be thus deeply traumatized, that's their problem, not mine, right? How could one -accept- living in a society where it's -okay- to act like homophobia is the norm?? How is that sane? How can one do that without -throwing up- and hating oneself??

I keep seeing it, this apologizing, this "too bad it's boylove, don't be offended" attitude, and it doesn't make sense to me. It implies one is somehow -validating- the attitude if one pussyfoots around it, doesn't it? Why should one -care- what damage one can conceivably do to the delicate, fragile minds of homophobic bastards? Let 'em have it. Immersion therapy, that's it.

I'm not trying to be mean to the sweethearts. Oh wait, I don't care if I hurt their feelings and traumatize them for life with a neverending loop of gay porn running through their feeble, stunned minds for ever and ever, amen. Oops.

In fact, there should be some sort of... slash pride day on college campuses, where they print original slashfic and distribute it in magazine form. No one would be expected to apologize, saying "we're sorry, go away if you're a racist, 'cause there are (gasp!!) non-Caucasian characters in this fic". No, that's not Kosher, is it. But it's okay to say "we're sorry, this is about two boys in love. We know this might bother you, so go away if you're a homophobic bigot." Yeah, I'm sorry-- sorry I can't forcibly make every one of them rethink their messed up views.

Okay, no, I don't know why I woke up just to post that -.- I feel I might regret it in the morning ><

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the warnings are there because the person likes to think they're naughty...?

Personally, I always find the idea that these are warnings kind of funny, because I read those things to find what I'm looking for as much as what I'm trying to avoid. So I think pairing listings is a good thing, but see no reason to have a separate warning for slash. If it's H/D isn't it obviously slash? Just put pairings: H/D, R/Hr, whatever. No difference, no special squick factor if there's two people of the same sex together. Because of course putting the special warning assumes homosexuality is somehow different from heterosexuality.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahahah, well, sometimes I think the naughty thing is true :> But most times when it's in reviews or where it's like "go away, here, here's a link to google" I feel like... why is PG-rated slash making you act like you write Eskimo/seal porn or something?

*sigh* Well, I was gonna delete this entry if no one responded, but I guess it wasn't so bad ^^;