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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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Yeah, that's what I was thinking of - not that it was the *only* reason for people to slash BBM (I'm a fan of the novella myself), but that it was probably the most widespread one.