Female Characters and Women Slashers
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| Title: | Female Characters and Women Slashers |
| Creator: | Annabelle Leigh |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
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| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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Female Characters and Women Slashers is an essay by Annabelle Leigh about the role that female characters play – or in some cases do not play – in slash fandom, focusing on The Sentinel.
It was cited in Jae's essay Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers.
Excerpt
Excerpt: "I find the whole question of why we women slashers get so prickly around female characters a very interesting one. Of course, there is a whole spectrum of opinion on this issue. I don't mean to suggest otherwise. Plenty of us like Megan well enough. Or Serena. Or Sam. And there are even a few brave souls out there who defend Cassie. <g>
But enough of us seem to feel strongly about it to make it an issue in my mind. When it gets right down to it, we don't seem to want any women getting in the way of *our* guys--not brainless babes of the week, not long-term love interests, not female partners. We're having none of it."