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GAYSPE #14 THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD OF SLASH FICTN
It's Part Of A Global Landspe Of Siar MediaThe Enomist brought some mastream attentn to yaoi and slash general this week, when they reported that ics pictg homosexual male relatnships were hugely popular Cha among young women. Yaoi has been the subject of a lot of ntroversy s time, g unr cricism claimg that the ics are "unrealistic" about gay men and pict them as sexual modi rather than real self has been targeted by the Che ernment; s voted to the genre have been closed down systematilly sce 2007, and mastream media outlets the untry have suggted that fans might need "psychiatric help".
Instead, looks like there's que a lot of queer lady volvement the creatn of slash and siar works — and likely both straight and gay men create slash and siar media, as well. It Has Been Cricized As HomophobicIn Elizabeth Woledge's "Intimatopia: Genre Intersectns Between Slash And The Mastream, ", she pots out that slash fictn often don't really offer much discsn of the ia of beg gay or LGBTQ, and sometim views male sexual timacy as a kd of logil nsequence of two men hangg around each other a lot. "Much slash fictn has been cricised, " she wr, "for s supposed homophobic implitn that s hero are not gay but jt two men who love each other.
" Morn LGBTQ issu are left largely out of slash — and then there's the cricism often levelled at yaoi and other related visual media, which is that they make gay sexualy to a kd of simplified zoo for straight female producers of this kd of media ph back agast this accatn. Akiko Mizoguchi has poted out that a lot of ntemporary yaoi actually tackl LGBT issu head-on, touchg on about equal rights, gay marriage and other them of acceptance.