I'm still left to struggle with the question of whether slash exploits the gay culture the way straight male porn exploits women
Men exploit women, and the male culture oppresses women to excuse, justify, and maintain this exploitation.
Do you think women who write slash exploit gay men and use slash to excuse, justify and maintain this exploitation?
Are the two forms of "pornography" really parallel, or do they only intersect aesthetically?
Exploiting someone else's culture is bad, yes, but slashers do not profit from such (if any, considering how little connection there often is between slash and actual gay men) exploitation of gay male culture in the same way men profit from their exploitation of women, and I have yet to find examples of slashers justifying the social oppression of gay men (whose exploitation, as a matter of fact, profits the patriarchy itself).
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Men exploit women, and the male culture oppresses women to excuse, justify, and maintain this exploitation.
Do you think women who write slash exploit gay men and use slash to excuse, justify and maintain this exploitation?
Are the two forms of "pornography" really parallel, or do they only intersect aesthetically?
Exploiting someone else's culture is bad, yes, but slashers do not profit from such (if any, considering how little connection there often is between slash and actual gay men) exploitation of gay male culture in the same way men profit from their exploitation of women, and I have yet to find examples of slashers justifying the social oppression of gay men (whose exploitation, as a matter of fact, profits the patriarchy itself).