Hating the Haters

[nightfox]

This is really just a rant but I keep seeing this and it really honks me off. There are two places in particular that this issue keeps popping up.

First, I am a happy member of merlin_finders. I love getting recs from other people's searches and I like being able to help out if I can find something for someone else. All in all, it's a great comm. However, I really, really hate when someone takes the time to emphatically specify, NO SLASH. Really? You have to just spew it out like that? Not, "I prefer gen fic" or "I'm looking for het pairings"?

I mean, I understand that slash isn't for everyone and you are certainly within your rights to read what you want to read but there really is something about the way that phrase reads that just screams homophobia to me.

I find it amazing the amount of intolerance you can cram into two small words. The disgust and disdain that pours off that simple statement is astonishing.

On FF.net, authors show their hate with the same phrase or the slight variant of Not Slash and they often take the time to put in bold, italics or ALL CAPS just to be sure you got the message. Slash is nasty and you won't find it in my pristine little fic!

This has been building in me for a while now. I used to just shrug and keep on going but the more I see it, the more it bothers me. I have to be honest, I don't care how good your story might be, if you label yourself as a homophobe at the very top of the damned thing, I sure as hell am not going to read any further. It's not that I'm exclusively looking to read slash either. I'll take well written het and gen fic any day. But I'll be double dipped in dog shit before I support the work of an intolerant prick!

Same thing goes for searches on merlin_finders. If you say NO SLASH, you get NO FIC from me. I may have exactly what you are looking for in my hot little hands but you have just shown yourself unworthy of my help. Take your shriveled little hating heart and be on your way.

OK, that's it for now. Time for me to go fall on my nose and sleep for a few hours!

Comments

[jissai1988.livejournal.com]

Nyxelestia kicked my ass.

Well, that and I soon found merlin too fun not to torture in every possible way. Eventually I didn't need to stick the "im not gay but I like to write gay porn" over all my stories and complain to poinsioningpigeonsinthepark about it. If you go back to my first post here on lj u can see the last post I did on that.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

All that says is that you only like reading and writing slash in the Merlin verse. Dunna say much about the why *eyes you*

I already loved Nyxelestia but how exactly did she kick your ass? I ask cuz I am looking for effective ways to do this myself.

[jissai1988.livejournal.com]

Ill explain more in regards to ur first sentence once I return from work.

First, she got to know me a few months. Then, she began pounting things out to me bit by bit. And the few times I tried to argue with her about it, she kicked my ass with logic, reason, modern day thinking and overall confidence.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Alright then, I await your return!

See? I knew I liked her :D

[jissai1988.livejournal.com]

To the first question, I began to realise that I really liked to torture Merlin. A lot. It just become became more obvious to me as time went on that, unlike Harvey, I am not a male-lesbian.

So, how have you been? I need to find time to get on here more often. I miss everyone.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Well, quite frankly, most of us land somewhere along a very broad spectrum. I can tell you I don't fit neatly into ANY of the three major labels cuz really, I'm not straight, I'm not gay and I'm also not equally bi-sexual, though I like what I like, regardless of whether it's an innie or and outie.

Me? Well, now that my psycho sister from hell is gone, I am back to tired, in pain and frantically trying to meet another writing deadline.

How are you doing?