Hmm. I totally get what you mean. I will admit that, before your rant, I didn't really think about it too much as someone who reads much more het than slash (although, admittedly not so much the case lately! *winks*).
But I clearly see your point. (I actually went onto my account on FF.net and double-checked to make sure nothing of mine was marked that way. It wasn't.)
It's uncool for people to be discriminatory; it's true. But there are people of all kinds in this world, who have been taught and/or believe loads of different things. Rather than rage at them, I prefer to feel sorry for them for their sadly narrow point of view. If I let them have my anger, then I've let them affect me and that's what people like that want.
It sucks that in a society this far removed from caves, people can be so judgemental and narrowminded.
All that being said, there are some Merthur fans who are really in-your-face about it also. I could also see authors marking their fics like that if they've had negative experiences in the past reading fic that was not marked as slash when it was.
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But I clearly see your point. (I actually went onto my account on FF.net and double-checked to make sure nothing of mine was marked that way. It wasn't.)
It's uncool for people to be discriminatory; it's true. But there are people of all kinds in this world, who have been taught and/or believe loads of different things. Rather than rage at them, I prefer to feel sorry for them for their sadly narrow point of view. If I let them have my anger, then I've let them affect me and that's what people like that want.
It sucks that in a society this far removed from caves, people can be so judgemental and narrowminded.
All that being said, there are some Merthur fans who are really in-your-face about it also. I could also see authors marking their fics like that if they've had negative experiences in the past reading fic that was not marked as slash when it was.