Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

What's ironic about hearing this is that about a month ago I got into an argument over slash, and I don't even like slash, but I was busy trying to say "to each his own, it doesn't bother me" , and they were trying to accuse me of turning traitor or something (which I didn't, which was the frustrating part!). It was a big headache. Probably was happening around the same time you mean. I do think I remember that trends discussion you're talking about in Alanna's journal.

Seriously - we will squabble over anything. We squabbled over icons that said "No apologies" fer Gawd's sake.

You mean all the "Spike fan, no apologies" and Slash fan, no apologies" icons? Damn. That's almost funny.

You know I do remember a sort of kerfluffle thing happening in the beginning of september, something with all the slash fans (or was it AtS fans) at one of the conventions being mad at all spike/spuffy fangirls crowding them or something. That kinda made my eyes bug out, because getting mad at someone for convention behavior is kind of pointless.

Hm. I wonder if its possible to have a straightforward discussion of the validity of slash as a character ship (not a fandom ship), without having people get upset. Sometimes I'd like to sit down with yaoi (slash) fans of Gundam Wing and debate with them why Heero and Duo are not gay, even if Quatre and Trowa might be. Or the same thing with Highlander. But it seems that it always goes badly, and then no one ever really gets to hear the other side's reasons. I imagine it probably is an argument best had in person, where you can read each other's expressions.