Het vs. Slash, round 3,482

The title of this post is fair warning, I think.

There have been a number of thoughtful and interesting posts on the meaning of both "het" and "slash" recently (all linked via metafandom), mostly spinning off a post a few days back which postulated a category of "queer het." Which I kind of get, but also find insulting, because hello? The fact that you feel that you are a member of a politically marginalized group does not give you carte blanche to make reductionist arguments about everyone else.

But instead, I thought I'd try for "dull" rather than "offensive." What follows is more about me, and what interests me as a reader of fanfiction, especially erotic fanfiction, ( so consider yourselves warned )

To be honest, I suspect that, as one of the commenters to the "queer het" post pointed out, our prejudices are shaped by the circles in which we read -- that is, I have a high opinion of authors who write both het and slash because that's the circle I've been reading in for years now, and I've figured out what and whom I like.

Also, I think it's amusing that twinkledru has commented on the matter just now as well, although with a slightly different focus.

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Dude! ( major alias spoiler! )