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Like the proverbial salmon swimming upstream, there often comes a time in every [[meta]] fan's life when they feel compelled to return to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything Ultimate Question]: but why ''[[slash]]''?<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/metabib/5064.html Slash Theory] metabib 2005-04-22, ''(Accessed 2008-11-03)''</ref> | Like the proverbial salmon swimming upstream, there often comes a time in every [[meta]] fan's life when they feel compelled to return to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything Ultimate Question]: but why ''[[slash]]''?<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/metabib/5064.html Slash Theory] metabib 2005-04-22, ''(Accessed 2008-11-03)''</ref> | ||
Fans sometimes refer to this perennial wondering as "why slash" or | Fans sometimes refer to this perennial wondering as "why slash" or "the why slash debate" and answers are as varied as [[fen]]. | ||
The longer one is in [[fandom]], the shorter one's response to this question becomes, often shrinking from vast multipost entries to the pithy and incomplete/inaccurate: "Because two men = hot". | The longer one is in [[fandom]], the shorter one's response to this question becomes, often shrinking from vast multipost entries to the pithy and incomplete/inaccurate: "Because two men = hot". | ||
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* [[Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls... ]] by [[FayJay]] (2010) | * [[Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls... ]] by [[FayJay]] (2010) | ||
* [[sex, and slash sex scenes]] by [[Shoshanna]]. Essay on the writer's initial discovery of and views on slash as the (sole) genre that integrates people's lives in the bedroom with their lives outside it. (April 2011) | * [[sex, and slash sex scenes]] by [[Shoshanna]]. Essay on the writer's initial discovery of and views on slash as the (sole) genre that integrates people's lives in the bedroom with their lives outside it. (April 2011) | ||
* "[http://firefox.org/news/articles/1196/1/Why----A-Not-Remotely-Complete-Investigation-of-the-quotWhy-Slash--Why-Het--Why-Femslashquot-Debate/Page1.html The Why Slash Debate]" | |||
==Other Examples== | ==Other Examples== | ||
* [[:Category:Perspectives on Fans]] | * [[:Category:Perspectives on Fans]] | ||