I don't usuall comment on this sort of thing, but as someone who reads and writes all sorts of slash, including Marauders, I feel a need, mostly out of curiosity.
I agree with your sentiments on the nature of the relationship between the Marauders, as I believe friendship to be a wonderful thing. Certainly one would have to be a fool not to.
However, I do have to ask, if you feel it's so degrading to bring sexual attraction into the relationship, why is it okay to slash, say, Harry and Ron, who have the same sort of best-friend-to-the-death bond? Where is the difference? I'm honestly curious, I'm not trying to be antagonistic.
Finally, I do have to take offense to something you said, and here I quote:
Well, actually, experience of certain female writers on the FICTION ALLEY site has convinced me that it is a certain kind of woman who is incapable of thinking of anything except in sexual terms.
I think this is a gross generalization. As a woman who likes to read and write slash, and who has several male friends, of all sexual persuasions, I have to say it's a little ridiculous to make a statement like that. Often I will joke around, of course, about reading sex into every situation, but I hardly do it in real life.
I hardly believe that all men can think about is sex, and when I write Marauder slash, I try not to demean the relationships between the characters by making them all about sex. So do most of the authors I read regularly. Most of us believe in the idea of being in love with a friend, and this is just as admirable an emotion as platonic friendship.
I would recommend you read a Marauder fic or two before telling us all what a deplorable genre it is as a whole.
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Date: 2004-08-20 10:39 pm (UTC)I agree with your sentiments on the nature of the relationship between the Marauders, as I believe friendship to be a wonderful thing. Certainly one would have to be a fool not to.
However, I do have to ask, if you feel it's so degrading to bring sexual attraction into the relationship, why is it okay to slash, say, Harry and Ron, who have the same sort of best-friend-to-the-death bond? Where is the difference? I'm honestly curious, I'm not trying to be antagonistic.
Finally, I do have to take offense to something you said, and here I quote:
Well, actually, experience of certain female writers on the FICTION ALLEY site has convinced me that it is a certain kind of woman who is incapable of thinking of anything except in sexual terms.
I think this is a gross generalization. As a woman who likes to read and write slash, and who has several male friends, of all sexual persuasions, I have to say it's a little ridiculous to make a statement like that. Often I will joke around, of course, about reading sex into every situation, but I hardly do it in real life.
I hardly believe that all men can think about is sex, and when I write Marauder slash, I try not to demean the relationships between the characters by making them all about sex. So do most of the authors I read regularly. Most of us believe in the idea of being in love with a friend, and this is just as admirable an emotion as platonic friendship.
I would recommend you read a Marauder fic or two before telling us all what a deplorable genre it is as a whole.