That is very interesting. I can't help but wonder what subconcious motivation is behind that - the desire to exert power and control by 'making' someone 'act gay' seems, to me, to involve quite a negative attitudes towards gay acts - exercising power by forcing someone to do something percieved as demeaning or degrading. Then I suppose a possible reason for the age split is that women aged 40+ would have probably grown up and been socialised in a much more homophobic society, and still have some hangover from that (although I always tend to assume that older slashers are going to be more open-minded, not less). Or maybe I'm being uncharitable. At the moment I seem to be seeing everything in the worst possible light.
Anyway. It's a pity you weren't able to turn it into a book or article, but I don't blame you for becoming disillusioned. This debate's been going for, I don't know, two weeks? And I'm already exhausted.
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Date: 2010-02-06 08:24 pm (UTC)Anyway. It's a pity you weren't able to turn it into a book or article, but I don't blame you for becoming disillusioned. This debate's been going for, I don't know, two weeks? And I'm already exhausted.