I just friended you - hope you don't mind. :/ I am not an incest survivor - and one of the things that bothered me the most about heatherly's post was the implication that one had to be a survivor in order to wrwite about such things; people who have not been through this trauma cannot, apparently, understand it or at least depict it in fiction - but I am with you on the whole "who defines 'responsible'"? The answer to that is... not something I want to contemplate. I am in fanfiction because it's a place where I can create universes I want to explore, or explore universes created by others in my own way. That way happens to be slash; it could as easily be incest or chan or RPF or what have you. There are people who think writing slash fiction is "irresponsible." There are people who think writing fanfiction is irresponsible. Where DO you draw the line?
I choose not to draw a line. As a fictional world, as an artistic creation, all fanfic is created equal and should be treated equally, that is, as a manifestation of our ability to think and create, no matter what other people think of it.
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Date: 2007-06-09 09:01 pm (UTC)I choose not to draw a line. As a fictional world, as an artistic creation, all fanfic is created equal and should be treated equally, that is, as a manifestation of our ability to think and create, no matter what other people think of it.