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[smithy161]

Sorry for the spamming tonight, but a comment on fandomsecret got me wondering. I know this is an age-old question, but I'm asking it anyway, because it still seems unclear what the majority vote is. Not that my flist's opinion is definitive, but it's somewhere to start:

Poll Slashdom

Comments

[smithy161]

That takes guts, talking about slash with non-fannish people!

But yeah, this is why it's confusing. everyone has their own definition, or there are a dozen or more to subscribe to.

[aeron_lanart]

To me slash is any same sex pairing be it m/m or f/f though having said that I would also call f/f specifically femslash if I wanted to differentiate between f/f and m/m. Some people won't use the word slash unless it involves smut, I think you can find perfectly good gen slash thank you very much and don't agree with that. Anything I write and put up on my website (which needs updating) that has a same sex pairing as either the main focus or a subsidiary of a multiple is given a slash warning whether it is explicit or not.

[donutsweeper]

hmmm, I've pretty much seen slash=m/m and femslash=f/f. while m/f=het.

[aralias]

technically, i believe it means man/man woman/woman, but i'd be confused by that and we have the term femslash to clear everything up. on theother hand, femslash is a really ugly word, so *Shrugs*

i do remember, long before i was part of fandom, reading an article that claimed it could be the slash between any pairing (i believe they offered bridget jones/darth vader) and that must be where the term originates from, but this is definitely not correct. as far as i understand it.

[msp_hacker]

I use "slash" a similar way you can use "man." Slash usually depecits male/male pairings, but it can be used in the general such as "Wow, this show is really slashy!" to refer to the fact that it has quite a few male/male AND female/female pairings.

Though I fluctuate on whether "slash" can be used for cannonical relationships or not. Mostly because it new for me of cannon relationships between people of the same sex. Before, 'gen' would cover no-pairing or male/female romance, and slash was everything else. Now I use het/slash to contrast different and same sex pairings, because I don't want to contrast fanfiction with het/homo.