Well, the whole argument annoys me on so many levels that I've been walking away from it for years. There is the limited view of what straight women are like and how that plays out in their sexuality, in real life or in fic. (Like you don't have to think about what you are doing when you go to bed with somebody twice your size?)
And the limited view of the levels of emotional complexity that can be written into sex and that resonates as meaningfully hetero to straight people (like John and Aeryn do, in all their tortured glory).
And the limited view of what fanfic is, which has turned the plotfic--with or without a thick and juicy love story--into the dinosaur of fandom.
I don't actually read much F/F because, while I like to see a me-surrogate in a story, I like to see the me with a guy. But some of my favorite stories are m/m slash, right up there with some of my favorite plot fics, and m/f stories But mostly, not recent ones. And not PWPs, which are generally just boring.
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And the limited view of the levels of emotional complexity that can be written into sex and that resonates as meaningfully hetero to straight people (like John and Aeryn do, in all their tortured glory).
And the limited view of what fanfic is, which has turned the plotfic--with or without a thick and juicy love story--into the dinosaur of fandom.
I don't actually read much F/F because, while I like to see a me-surrogate in a story, I like to see the me with a guy. But some of my favorite stories are m/m slash, right up there with some of my favorite plot fics, and m/f stories But mostly, not recent ones. And not PWPs, which are generally just boring.
Camille