I pretty much just hate all kinds of slash, and it's got nothing to do with homophobia. It's that I hate watching people bend established characterization into a pretzel just because they want to see two characters in bed together. It's one thing if it's a cannon relationship, or if both characters are cannonically not straight and not otherwise involved. But taking two characters clearly intended to be straight (or taken) and sticking them in bed together just for the sake of the smut is obnoxious. It's disrespectful of the universe, it's disrespectful of the characters, and frankly, it's disrespectful of the queer community. I know slashers claim that they're the gay advocates and anyone who hates slash is a homophobe, but no one yet has been able to explain to me how treating sexual minorities as nothing more than sex objects put on this earth for the entertainment of the opposite gender is anything but degrading.
That, and I think anyone who types any version of "OMG OB1/ANIKIN SO HAWT !!1!" when not mocking someone should have their keyboard perminantly removed from their house and given to a more deserving individual.
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I pretty much just hate all kinds of slash, and it's got nothing to do with homophobia. It's that I hate watching people bend established characterization into a pretzel just because they want to see two characters in bed together. It's one thing if it's a cannon relationship, or if both characters are cannonically not straight and not otherwise involved. But taking two characters clearly intended to be straight (or taken) and sticking them in bed together just for the sake of the smut is obnoxious. It's disrespectful of the universe, it's disrespectful of the characters, and frankly, it's disrespectful of the queer community. I know slashers claim that they're the gay advocates and anyone who hates slash is a homophobe, but no one yet has been able to explain to me how treating sexual minorities as nothing more than sex objects put on this earth for the entertainment of the opposite gender is anything but degrading.
That, and I think anyone who types any version of "OMG OB1/ANIKIN SO HAWT !!1!" when not mocking someone should have their keyboard perminantly removed from their house and given to a more deserving individual.