Trek criticism & rant of the day

[wiseheart]

Warning: this will be long and probably not everyone's cup of tea. I'm hiding it behind a tag because of the length of it, and for no other reason. Why should I do so otherwise? There is nothing offensive about this topic. *glares defiantly*


Sometimes I moan about the insane amount of really bad slash in the Trekkieverse. On the other hand, I've just run into these articles and find them very, very interesting.

Complain about the complete absence of gay or lesbian characters in Trek:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/trek.html

Gay criticism on TNG:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/tng.html
Notice especially the sad tale of David Gerrold's lost script which I fully intend to turn into a fanfic novel one day.

Gay criticism on DS9:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/ds9.html

Gay criticism on Voyager:
http://www.gaire.com/trek/endofvoy.htm

More gay criticism on Voyager:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/voyager.html

Gay criticism on Enterprise:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/enterprise.html

Now, here's the place where I should copy&paste my default statement about not being a "slasher". About being a writer, who writes stories which may or may not have relationships between peoples of both the same and the opposite gender.

This time, I won't do it. As much as I hate that I'm being put into a box that would only fit a certain part of my writing (and not necessarily the most important part of it), I'd rather be marked as an evil "slasher" than being a bigot.


Other than that, I've made Quiche Lorraine today. It's a French cheese tart. Mum and I ate the whole thing in one session and are now so overstuffed that we can hardly move. *sighs*

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I found those articles really interesting. Thanks for sharing the links. I don't know much about the Trek fandom and hadn't realized that this controversy was going on. I can certainly see the campaigners' point, though: it's not logical to portray an elightened, tolerant, perfected society of the future and, at the same time, to blank out homosexuality. Interesting too that fanficcers are credited with helping to redress the balance. It puts a new spin on homoerotica in fanfiction. (A similar argument has been offered for Tolkien slash, I think - that it challenges the author's own conservative world-view.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

A similar argument has been offered for Tolkien slash, I think - that it challenges the author's own conservative world-view.

Which only caused the self-proclaimed purists to scream bloody murder and call anyone who dares to touch those "dirty" topics an evil smut writer.

God, I'm so sick and tired of this damned fandom I could vomit all day. The only thing that keeps me going is the fact hat would I quit, they would win.