I clearly doubt that's why most of femslash writers write femslash
Me too. I think most people write about the characters they like best/find most interesting, though I know of at least a couple of people who certainly seem to think of themselves as feminist writers and implicitly better than the rest of us because they write female characters (in het relationships, not femslash). So maybe true for some, but as you say, not most.
Although, there are challenges that push for people to write more female (or BME) characters, which is because their leaders feel there's a lack of these characters being written, which I'd guess comes from the same place as feminism, or the equivalent for characters of colour. So maybe more than we think. I dunno-I did decide that this year I was going to try to write more characters featuring female characters, which have mostly been gen or femslash because I'm not much of a het writer, which is probably related to my feminist identity. I never actually gave it much thought (though *now* I will be!)
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Date: 2010-06-20 05:40 pm (UTC)Me too. I think most people write about the characters they like best/find most interesting, though I know of at least a couple of people who certainly seem to think of themselves as feminist writers and implicitly better than the rest of us because they write female characters (in het relationships, not femslash). So maybe true for some, but as you say, not most.
Although, there are challenges that push for people to write more female (or BME) characters, which is because their leaders feel there's a lack of these characters being written, which I'd guess comes from the same place as feminism, or the equivalent for characters of colour. So maybe more than we think. I dunno-I did decide that this year I was going to try to write more characters featuring female characters, which have mostly been gen or femslash because I'm not much of a het writer, which is probably related to my feminist identity. I never actually gave it much thought (though *now* I will be!)