Hahaha. Not

[janedavitt]

I just went over to look at that fan fiction survey that's whipping up a frothy kerfuffle. Didn't look at the survey itself, which I don't intend to take, just browsed the comments. ETA The survey's down now while they lick their wounds, I guess

Comments

[lil_coyote]

Wow. Offensive and bad science. Sadly, the best we can hope is that better minds above the people that put up the survey will boot this as the survey takers don't seem interested in learning anything from what happened.

[janedavitt]

I hope the book never sees the light of day to be honest.

[justhuman]

I just flipped through the questions. While there was a lot of WTF! all around, especially on the second set, the one that really pinged my fannish!rant filter was

If you enjoy m/m slash, which best describes your feelings about sexual relationships between two males who appear heterosexual?

How many times to we have to explain this?

The social stuff is so cringe worthy, I don't even know where to begin.

[aprilvalentine]

I know -- and what the heck does "appear heterosexual" even mean? I understand the "straight appearing" term but aside from its obvious bias, what does the question mean? Do you have a different opinion of sexual relationships between men who appear gay (those that, what? swish? act effeminate? call each other Mary?) What's the difference? Either someone is okay with gay people or they aren't, I don't think it has much to do with whether they "appear" straight or gay. And do they even think that those who enjoy m/m slash might have issues with gay men, regardless of how they "appear"?

[justhuman]

Like much of the naivete in their questions, my assumption was they were going down the road of "canonically straight" -- the arguement that slash fans are somehow gaying up perfectly heterosexual boys.

If we thought he "appeared" straight, we probably wouldn't write him into a slash story.

[aprilvalentine]

I figured that too. I had to laugh at the "so you are saying that slash readers consider characters in a m-m story to not be heterosexual?" Uh... if the characters are having male/male sex, uh, no. I don't consider them to be heterosexual. And some readers thought "heterosexual" was a typo. lol

[elfwreck]

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[demeter94]

I'm late to this but still... fanfic writers don't care about word count? WTF, really. Why can't you be serious about your fanfic and about your original works as well, and why the hell don't people who don't get it and don't care to do their homework just stay away?

Oh well. From your recent post I gather that person has drawn back now. In one word: Sheesh.

[janedavitt]

They've scuttled off, tail between their legs. :;dusts palms::