Smaragd's responce.

[Kim Brotherton]

Subject:
Smaragd's responce.
Date:
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:34:26 +1100
From:
"Kim Brotherton" <k.b...@hunterlink.net.au>
To:
<AS...@earthlink.net>

Subject:
Re: LONG: Ranting (but hopefully not raving)
Date:
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:12:44 -0500
From:
Smaragd <sma...@seaton.net>
To:
AS...@earthlink.net

Although there is a lot of m/f erotica out there, IMHO, the most
interesting, innovative, and thought-provoking stories and
discussion
are about m/m slash. That may be because women (who, IMHO, are
more
interesting, innovative, and thought-provoking people) happen to
write
m/m slash, but that's beside the point. I've found that m/f
erotica
tends to reflect reality, tends to reflect stereotypes, tends to
reflect the banal world we live in. Slash, OTOH, highlights
differences and possibilities. I'll try to support this
supposition in
the remainder of this post.

I think there was a thread not so long ago on this topic : that
slash is somehow 'better', more innovative, than hetsmut. I've
always felt that the sex of the people involved in the story was
irrelevant to how innovative it was. To me, it is how well it
is told, how deep the author goes into the motivations of the
characters which make a story more original and more
interesting. Simply because a story is slash, it does not
follow that the plot is less or more 'stereotypical' or 'banal'
than a het story.

I won't argue the K/S of this topic : I feel I don't know enough
about TOS to make a case. But this comment of yours burnt me a
little. I object to people arbitrarily classifying work as
'lesser' simply because it doesn't contain the elements they
enjoy.

That might have something to do with the fact that I write
hetsmut. :)

LLAP
Kim

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