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The Future of Slash
Slash has also been misdescribed in the press as a genre exclusive to straight middle-class women, and even as a kind of "mommy porn" written by housewives in their copious spare time. Many slash authors may have portrayed themselves in this way in order to keep anonymity, since writing and mailing explicit homosexual narrative (fanfic or not) could get you jail time in the '70s. The real slash demographic has always included Lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender women along with trans men and male-identifying gay and straight men. (see the [[Livejournal]] community [http://men-who-slash.livejournal.com/ Men Who Slash]) -- who, even today, might use female names just to fit in.
Slash has also been misdescribed in the press as a genre exclusive to straight middle-class women, and even as a kind of "mommy porn" written by housewives in their copious spare time. Many slash authors may have portrayed themselves in this way in order to keep anonymity, since writing and mailing explicit homosexual narrative (fanfic or not) could get you jail time in the '70s. The real slash demographic has always included Lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender women along with trans men and male-identifying gay and straight men. (see the [[Livejournal]] community [http://men-who-slash.livejournal.com/ Men Who Slash]) -- who, even today, might use female names just to fit in.
==The Future of Slash==
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In 1995, two fans had this discussion: {{Quotation|
I'm curious what people will think about slash 200 years from now. Wil people regard it as an odd group of nutters? Will people regard it as a subversive feminist movement?
: I _hope_ that they will more likely regard it with the slightly bemused 'how weird!' reaction I'm seeing in 6 year old girls discovering that not too long ago, women did _not_ go to university or become doctors or train in astrophysics or go into professional sports. I'm hoping that people will look at it and say, 'just imagine, people used to be _shocked_ by women doing this!'
: It may be [completely forgotten], or certainly no more than a footnote, but given the way media fandom is becoming more and more known and more and more widely-spread, I think it will simply be yet another segment of an increasingly segregating fan base.
: [snippped]
: As for professionally published slash: I think there's more out there than we know. I wish I could remember the title/author, but there's a gay novel published by Plume where the author did an interview saying that basically, the two characters were inspired by and based on watching two of his favourite actors in a film together. So, it's in that grey area of not being slash, but sharing certain slashy elements. Sometimes, though, I think slash is out there, we just haven't been given enough info to label it.
: [snipped]
: Not only do I think that there will always be slash, I think there'll always be someone who hasn't heard of it yet, but finds herself making up these stories and convinced that no-one else likes the same thing or wishing she could meet like-minded folk. And I think we'd all get some very interesting surprises if we could get a mind-reading time-machine and dip into the memories and dreams of our great-(great-)grandmothers waiting breathlessly for the next issue of Strand Magazine and the new Sherlock Holmes story. <Ref> quoted from [[Virgule-L]], the first quote anonymously, the second quote is by [[M. Fae Glasgow]] and quoted with permission (May 14, 1995) </ref>}}
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==Slash Meta/Further Reading==
==Slash Meta/Further Reading==