out_there: B-Day Present '05 (Teamwork Sam'n'Josh)
out_there ([personal profile] out_there) wrote2003-10-04 01:12 pm

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Well, I wanted to play with a poll anyway, and this is a discussion I had with a friend a while ago. Basically, I'm following the Sam Seaborn method of convincing someone (getting lots of figures and seeing if they agree with me *g*).

I'm actually highly curious about how other slashers define slash. So, please fill it in and maybe even mention it to your friends. (We'll see how big a poll population we can muster!).


[Poll #187675]

[identity profile] mecurtin.livejournal.com 2003-10-03 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"how would you describe fiction for it" to me means "what kind of label would be useful". Although there *are* people for whom canonical vs. non-canonical is the most important distinction, in this culture (in the US at least) the distinction between "willing to accept same-sex relationships" and "not willing to accept them" is far more emotional and important for most people.

Basically, I don't get the same "feel" from canonical same-sex relationships as I do from traditional slash, but since more readers sort by the "same-sex" label than by the "canonical" label, calling such stories "slash" is far more useful than calling them "gen".