Sheesh

[leethet]

There's so much bad feeling between slash and gen (and particularly between perceived slash and gen) in this fandom that I wonder if it isn't a good thing when those two "camps" are wholly separate, the way they are in other fandoms. Then at least one side doesn't get hit by the other's vitriol all the time.

I have trouble fathoming people's need to be "right" when it comes to something that is so clearly a matter of personal taste.

Sigh...

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[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Granted, I just joined the mfuslash list and am not familiar with longstanding patterns in the fandom, but I didn't see a lot of bad feeling in the posts that I've read on this topic the last few days. Just people trying very hard to explain their personal preferences and wishing there was more out there to meet that particular taste. A couple of people got maybe a tad more vehement than needed, but it's nothing like some of the bad feelings I've seen on other lists-- sometimes not even between slash and gen, but often between Slash Pairing A and slash pairing B.