On Labeling Slash Fiction
May. 15th, 2005 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slumberJust, randomly, and I guess this issue's been run to the ground before, but is it dishonest and offensive to place a slash and drama fic under a Drama category if a Slash category is available, even if the fic is mostly Drama?
How many people find it offensive, exactly, considering I never even thought of it before? I mean, I think that generally, the HP fandom has a to-each-his-own philosophy when it comes to things we don't like (except ships, but dude, I thought we've transcended the het-versus-slash debate AGES ago, or is that just because of the people I'm friends with?), but apparently there are people who think differently.
It might just be me, but I think I find it offensive that people think any sort of fic needs to be labeled slash at all, or even just when it isn't the main classification for the fic, or rated higher than PG, especially if it isn't.
Or, I don't know. When there are Slash categories in archive sites, does this automatically mean that everything else is Non-slash? Isn't that a little, I don't know, unfair? If I'd known the archive was Mostly Leaning to Het, I wouldn't have joined because I don't usually write het--why do some people feel the need to be warned for Mostly Slash sites, but then never warn for Mostly Het sites?
How many people find it offensive, exactly, considering I never even thought of it before? I mean, I think that generally, the HP fandom has a to-each-his-own philosophy when it comes to things we don't like (except ships, but dude, I thought we've transcended the het-versus-slash debate AGES ago, or is that just because of the people I'm friends with?), but apparently there are people who think differently.
It might just be me, but I think I find it offensive that people think any sort of fic needs to be labeled slash at all, or even just when it isn't the main classification for the fic, or rated higher than PG, especially if it isn't.
Or, I don't know. When there are Slash categories in archive sites, does this automatically mean that everything else is Non-slash? Isn't that a little, I don't know, unfair? If I'd known the archive was Mostly Leaning to Het, I wouldn't have joined because I don't usually write het--why do some people feel the need to be warned for Mostly Slash sites, but then never warn for Mostly Het sites?
