[LMB] Re: Slash'n'Anime'n'Romance

[Tzivia Adler]

>I don't believe slash (or romance) raises unrealistic
> expectations about men or life or anything else - no
> more than science fictions does, or mainstream novels,
> or comedy.
>
> namaste,
> Elizabeth
>
i think slash and romance might raise unrealistic expectation, but so does 
going to the grocery store to buy bread!  when a guy is standing on line 
waiting to pay for completely mundane things, there is a magazine rack full 
of covers with bikini-clad women, often with her thumb in her waistband, 
with a clear implication that -women are available!  come and get it!-

a woman has to go to the effort of reading a story to make the men 
'available'.  a guy doesn't have to do more than walk past an advertisement. 
and as a woman, those same adverts give me the message that -i- ought to be 
alluring and available, or something is wrong with me.
talk about unrealistic expectations!

so anyone who things that romance/slash gives women unrealistic ideas about 
men...   complaining to the wrong place.

ziviya, who just finished fumbling an explanation to a six year old:  -why- 
is that lady on the magazine taking off her underwear in a picture?  on the 
front page of a magazine? feh. 



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