I was very impressed with Mark Hamill's comment about Luke Skywalker, when some fan asked if Luke were gay, apparently he said, "If you think that Luke is gay, then he is."
I agree with what Brumeier says about why she likes slash. As well as what she said I think there is something about a romance that has both participants in an equal footing (no male dominance, female (even BAMF female) automatically weaker).
Slightly different discussion but an equal feeling of disappointment was when Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series of books, was vehemently opposed to fanfiction. She just didn't understand/get what fanfic was all about. She felt it was a violation of HER characters. It made me feel that what I do was dirty and wrong, even though I wasn't writing fic for her work.
I think when someone we admire says something that invalidates our feelings and the things that we do and like, it is going to hurt.
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29/3/16 10:12 (UTC)I agree with what Brumeier says about why she likes slash. As well as what she said I think there is something about a romance that has both participants in an equal footing (no male dominance, female (even BAMF female) automatically weaker).
Slightly different discussion but an equal feeling of disappointment was when Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series of books, was vehemently opposed to fanfiction. She just didn't understand/get what fanfic was all about. She felt it was a violation of HER characters. It made me feel that what I do was dirty and wrong, even though I wasn't writing fic for her work.
I think when someone we admire says something that invalidates our feelings and the things that we do and like, it is going to hurt.