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Article about how slash has helped how gays are viewed by society.
Likewise, the popularity of slash also surely played a big role in the break-out success of 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, which quickly found a massive and enthusiastic female audience. 2008’s Milk didn’t find that same break-out success, but maybe that’s partly because the latter film wasn’t as good a fit for an audience primed on slashfic, which often features doomed and tragic gay male love.
Um, he didn't notice all the fans who were like "Yeah, it's a good story but WHY THE CRUEL STEREOTYPICAL ENDING??!!" Eor's theory is that the younger fans produce more fic because they have more time to write (high school and college) and they're more into the angst, therefore people reading think ALL women love angst.
Likewise, the popularity of slash also surely played a big role in the break-out success of 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, which quickly found a massive and enthusiastic female audience. 2008’s Milk didn’t find that same break-out success, but maybe that’s partly because the latter film wasn’t as good a fit for an audience primed on slashfic, which often features doomed and tragic gay male love.
Um, he didn't notice all the fans who were like "Yeah, it's a good story but WHY THE CRUEL STEREOTYPICAL ENDING??!!" Eor's theory is that the younger fans produce more fic because they have more time to write (high school and college) and they're more into the angst, therefore people reading think ALL women love angst.
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I sort of feel about this stuff like I felt about earthquakes, growing up: when you're a kid in SoCal, you get told that someday there will be The Big One, the catastrophic quake that makes the state fall into the ocean, or at least makes you need your emergency backpack. But in the meantime, you encounter actual earthquakes and go, "Eh, I give it about a 4.5 on the Richter scale - nothing to get out of bed for."
I always feel like there's going to be a Big One of mainstream media discovering slash fandom and going apeshit. But in the meantime, there are all these little tremors that are more annoying than anything else, though you have to figure that they come as a complete shock to some poor innocent out there.
On the other hand, maybe they're just more like the articles that get published every year before San Diego Comic Con, going, "Breaking news! There are lots of geeks out there! LOTS! Some are even female! Some are even ATTRACTIVE females! Who woulda thunk it, right?!" IDEK.