Slash poll

[mhalachai]

All right, kids: humour me. Another poll, this one thought up while reading another lj about slash. As before, please fill it out and pimp it in your own lj so I can get a good response. Also, please tell me about why you do/do not read/write slash in comments. Love to all.

[Poll #478509]

Comments

[blackletter]

*Wandered in off the streets daily_snitch*

I read slash because my brain is wired in such a way that I have a great deal of trouble relating to female characters. So in a het story, I'm always left with one major character I can't relate to. Whereas is slash, I'm more likely to relate to both characters.

That said, I will read het as well, but I tend to hold it to a higher standard. The writing, the plot and the characterization have to be superb to make up for my typical disinterest in female characters due to the fact that I can't relate to them mentally or emotionally.

But I think my reason is atypical and my brain is a very strange place.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I have a great deal of trouble relating to female characters

Is this in the HP fandom? Do you have other fandoms?

And I guess the next question is, r u m or f? :P

[blackletter]

I'm primarily in the HP fandom, but the issue of not relating to female characters is part of my fiction reading experience in general--fanfic, profic, everything. I can analytically *appreciate* a female character (i.e.- realize that she was very well constructed by the author) and I can sometimes even become vaguely fond of a female character (as I am with Hermione). But because there's always some mental distance between myself and any female character, I can't really connect with the character.

As for your other question: Biologically, I'm a perfectly normal female. But my gender identity is closer to male than female (but ultimately is not quite either). Most groups I belong to quickly come to catagorize me pretty much as an asexual, genderless entity. (And I am happy with this.)

As I said, my brain = strange.