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[meganbmoore]

I'm sorry, I'm slightly cranky due to about 4 or maybe a teeny bit more hours of sleep, so let me rant a teeny bit.

I've seen several people leaving anonymous comments basically saying "hi, your posts are interesting, but I think you have questionable taste/are wrong in these opinions/etc." in posts on my f-list.  Huh?  It would make sense if it was in the context of "we seem to disagree about some things, but your posts are interesting and we like some of the same fandoms, do you mind if I friend you?" but the anonymous thing just to make a comment like that seems to be in bad taste. 

(They've also all been with people where I disagree with them or something or other, but I'm not exactly worried about that...why disagree anonymously if I've disagreed using my name before?  Actually, I don't get the whole "anonymous" thing in general.  If it's not something you feel comfortable saying using a name, then why say it at all?)

I was going to rant a bit on various community posts I've seen lately implying that anyone who doesn't love slash is homophobic, and that not being a slash fan means you hate all slashers, but I am going to skip that and end on the happier note that I've been seeing lots of girllove posts the last few days, as well as rants from people-not-me-or-redbrunjaabout mass fan hatred towards/dismissal of female characters for having vaginas.  A nice reversal from what I usually see outside of some f-list posts.

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[droiche.livejournal.com]

I turned off anonymous posting for a reason. ^_~

Oh gods. Don't get me started on the "not being a yaoi/slash fan = homophobic" issue. I was internet stalked recently by a psychotic teenage girl from an RP group I used to belong to because I dared to admit that I prefer Saiyuki het. Excuse me? Some of my online friends really are gay or bi and none of them have a problem with me preferring het. -_-

I don't know about you folks but I'm tired of us het fans and fans who admire female characters having to circle our wagons and defend ourselves everywhere we go in our fandoms. If we don't stand up for each other and band together in our own wolf pack, we get lynched.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I, very frankly, do not care what a person's sexual orientation is, or whether they like slash, het, or just couldn'r care less about any pairing ever. I just care whether they're sane(or at least my kind of insane) relatively intelligent, and share interests with me, and are more about liking the interest in general than hating certain parts of it. I don't think someone who hates fictional characters hates people in RL, and I don't assume a person who slashes is homosexual in RL(some are, some aren't) and I don't assume a person who writes rapefic is a rapist in RL, or that they approve of rape(though I do have issues with rapefic in general.) I've been seeing a lot of intro posts lately, though, even more than usual, including a line that they like slash, and would prefer to not be friended by closeminded or homophobic people.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Right. It shouldn't matter what someone's preferences are as long as we can have a decent conversation. We don't have to agree on everything. It just seems like common sense and simple courtesy have gone out the window. Folks on both sides of the yaoi/het fence are complaining about being oppressed yet turn around and bash the folks on the other side. That strikes me as hypocritical. We should all be honest about ourselves while being willing to accept that others have a right to do the same.