[LMB] Re: Slash (was OT) now Bujold Romance/Slash Meta

[paal at gis.net]

> Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:

> 
> *** I will add in passing, I have no problem, personally, with persons
> who express a discomfort about slash as a sub-set of their discomfort 
> about erotica/porn generally.   That is entirely their privilege, and
> I  have no interest in making people read/experience art outside their
> own  comfort zones.  Life's too short.  Ditto folks who are simply 
> indifferent to it, "this just doesn't float my boat, not interested, 
> thanks all the same."  There are any number of things *I* don't want
> to  read, after all.  Horror is high on that list, which is likely
> rather  long. 
> 
>      The problem only comes with hypocritical reactions: persons who 
> want to control other people's behavior but not their own; or, more 
> interestingly -- is there a word for this? -- people who want to
> control  other people's behavior as a *part* of controlling their own.
>  The  latter is not hypocrisy, it's something else.  Is there a word
> for it?   "Prudery" doesn't quite cover it.  This is the one part
> where the  concept of "status emergency" might actually impinge.

Hmm.  There is lots of it in evidence in Massachusetts these days,
regarding gay marriage, most, not all, but most, seems tied into certain
organized religions' official stances trying to mandate their religion
as state law. 

There are several reasons any or all of which can be behind it--the
person has something that works for them and wants everyone else to
share--that is, someone has found something fulfilling, and wants to
extend that sense of achievement and fulfillment to others.  Another
reason is that the person wants to control what others are doing because
what they are doing feels threatening to that person in some way or
other. Then there are those who have the opinion that what their values
are, should be imposed on everyone else.. and there are those whose view
is that misery loves company, since they have no happiness doing what
they're doing, what should anyone else do anything different and be
happy? 

"status emergency" is not a term which is sticking with me.

> 
> Ta, L.
>