See, it took until I got into LJ fandom to even start noticing these things properly for the first time. (Before that I was on FFN for a while, but as I'm sure you've noticed, that place is... special.) So no, I've not run into any old posts by you from way back when. And if I ever do, I'll bear what you say in mind. I'm trying to remember what sort of opinions 16-year-old me held in 2006... I remember a fascination with WWI poetry and sky pirates, but can't think of anything specific. I don't think I thought about relationships much, being at a girls' boarding school. But I'd never really realised that there was a problem with some peoples' perceptions of gay relationships in such contexts as fandoms until quite recently. I think also, if you'll bear with me generalising based on probably skewed perspectives, I came across far less anti-gay prejudice growing up in the UK than I think I would have in the US, where there also seem to be far more objections with the excuse of religion. The only really religious person I encountered was my RE and Drama teacher, who was a very liberal ordained vicar who was highly in favour of gay marriage. And now here at university everyone is incredibly tolerant of everyone, as far as I've seen. So I guess I'm lucky, because the prejudice I've run across has nearly all been on the internet and so was largely theoretical until not long ago when I came onto LJ. I'm not convinced that this paragraph makes sense - hopefully you got the gist of what I'm trying to say!
I think you're right about the different intentions between warning for slash and warning for het - I find the het warnings annoying because of the connections to me of bashing the female characters; for example I've come across people who have the very strong opinion that the presence of Keller in fic (even gen fic) should be warned for, but while that's annoying, it isn't portraying a large group of people as something to which exposure to 'ought' to be avoided.
On a side note, my do-not-want pairing is Ronon/Keller; this is because I could only feel that this 'love triangle' thing wasn't actually genuine. To me it looked as if Ronon had had no interest in her, and then took an interest purely to spite Rodney, not actually for any reason to do with Keller. Sort of reducing her to being a prize who would submit to the man who won her, and that concept to me is quite squicky.
As to your last paragraph, I'm not entirely convinced that the writers for SGA knew themselves what they were writing sometimes! Certainly not when the implications of episodes like 'Irrisistable' apparently just flew over their heads. And then there's Mallozzi who went on about how there was one gay character on Atlantis, without ever naming them, which is frankly pathetic imo and doesn't really make me believe him (or endear him to me, but that's another rant).
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Date: 2010-03-02 11:04 pm (UTC)I think you're right about the different intentions between warning for slash and warning for het - I find the het warnings annoying because of the connections to me of bashing the female characters; for example I've come across people who have the very strong opinion that the presence of Keller in fic (even gen fic) should be warned for, but while that's annoying, it isn't portraying a large group of people as something to which exposure to 'ought' to be avoided.
On a side note, my do-not-want pairing is Ronon/Keller; this is because I could only feel that this 'love triangle' thing wasn't actually genuine. To me it looked as if Ronon had had no interest in her, and then took an interest purely to spite Rodney, not actually for any reason to do with Keller. Sort of reducing her to being a prize who would submit to the man who won her, and that concept to me is quite squicky.
As to your last paragraph, I'm not entirely convinced that the writers for SGA knew themselves what they were writing sometimes! Certainly not when the implications of episodes like 'Irrisistable' apparently just flew over their heads. And then there's Mallozzi who went on about how there was one gay character on Atlantis, without ever naming them, which is frankly pathetic imo and doesn't really make me believe him (or endear him to me, but that's another rant).