Goodness, you're not derailing at all! It's just that that's going to be an area where I have less to say because I don't think I know enough to comment decisively, because I'm still learning.
There was one commenter here - not the one directly above - who said their initial dislike of genderswap as an idea was related to the suspicion it was slash writers' attempt to garner feminist cred without having to take the focus away from their adored men, which I guess happens, and I have to admit this has been my suspicion in the past too.
One of the things the great Slash May Be Evil discussion made me realize is that I am responsible to the world but I'm not responsible for it. (This is bigger than it sounds -- I tend to feel responsible for everything.) Just as I can't be responsible for all the badfic, but for making my stories as good as I can, I cannot be responsible for all the people who write genderswap from bad motives; what I can do is make sure those motives aren't mine, and to encourage others not to write from those motives, but if I stop writing because other people wrote from bad motives I won't benefit myself or anyone else.
Or, yeah, I know, but that's not why I write genderswap either, and I can't undo that other people may, though I can perhaps encourage them not to. But not by not writing.
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Date: 2011-03-28 11:20 am (UTC)There was one commenter here - not the one directly above - who said their initial dislike of genderswap as an idea was related to the suspicion it was slash writers' attempt to garner feminist cred without having to take the focus away from their adored men, which I guess happens, and I have to admit this has been my suspicion in the past too.
One of the things the great Slash May Be Evil discussion made me realize is that I am responsible to the world but I'm not responsible for it. (This is bigger than it sounds -- I tend to feel responsible for everything.) Just as I can't be responsible for all the badfic, but for making my stories as good as I can, I cannot be responsible for all the people who write genderswap from bad motives; what I can do is make sure those motives aren't mine, and to encourage others not to write from those motives, but if I stop writing because other people wrote from bad motives I won't benefit myself or anyone else.
Or, yeah, I know, but that's not why I write genderswap either, and I can't undo that other people may, though I can perhaps encourage them not to. But not by not writing.