an evolutionary psychologist's take on slash

[motsureru]

A friend linked this to me, and I knew it was totally worth linking here. This guy has the most narrow-minded view of slash fiction I've probably ever heard in my life. And he still manages to pretend like he knows everything ever about slash now, just because he wrote a book and studied some Star Trek slash. :P

http://viv.id.au/blog/20090505.4793/

Comments

[flwrpwr_vampyre]

*sporfles* I want him to read my stories. I really really do. Then I want him to analyze my stories. I wonder where they fit on his nifty chart of what slash is to women.

Jesus what a dickwad.

[motsureru]

I feel like he might have been onto something like... twenty years ago. And didn't want to admit the rapid evolution of slash in the last ten years, which would thereby negate most of the content of his book. :P

[flwrpwr_vampyre]

Exactly right. There's so many different forms of it now. Not just 'OMG, the relationship I'd want if I was a man!'

[etoiledunord]

Wow. His voice reminded me very strongly of Schillinger from OZ, and that just added a whole other layer of WTF-ery to this. o.O

I certainly don't claim to be an expert on slash, but that guy seems to be an example of how a little information is a dangerous thing. He mentions some concepts that could be valid, but he gets them ass-backwards wrong, and then he uses them to draw corollaries that are exponentially warped.

*facepalm*

[motsureru]

RIGHT? I was thinking about Schillinger too. It cracked me up. I was super amused by the fact that the person who posted the video was poking at him never actually asking real women why they write slash. I haven't read his work, but it DOES sound like he's just reading it and drawing conclusions on his own. Someone in the comments also mentioned that he coauthored the book with a woman, someone who introduced him to the slash phenomenon and whom he doesn't appear to be giving any credit to at all in the interview.