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

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

What I find amazing is the dismissal of the fraternal bond, which has been spotlighted in literature, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. It's a real thing: people in real life often have good, solid, fraternal bonds with friends of the same gender. It's part of our species makeup. Same with the mentoring system, where an older individual will mentor a younger person in a platonic only way.

The hyper-sexuality in our society, where every set of close friends has become a pair of closet cases, and an older mentor automatically becomes hidden sexual abuse, is just messed up.