f/f

I am having a problem with f/f slash...if you can call the fact that I generally hate it a problem. I say generally because there are exceptions, that are just so hot or so interesting I have to bookmark them and read over and over, and possibly even rec them. And I realized after watching the movie Mona Lisa Smile yesterday that the reason I hate a lot of it is that it tends to be all buddy/cuddly, like m/m slash for tv cop shows tends to be. All the interesting opposing slash, all the characters who fight, or bicker, or who are *obsessed* with each other tend to get overlooked in the name of mush. Well watch Mona Lisa Smile, if you can stomach Julia Roberts and Julia Stiles (it's difficult but try), and watch the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Maggie Gyllenhael (sp?) and then complain as I did about the lack of fanfic for those too, when the movie clearly sets it up for you. (Maggie's character, Giselle, kicks ass by the way. She's like Paulette Goddard in the women. Reow) Someone who doesn't write at the speed of a snail, like I do, please explore this! It's begging for it.

And on a related note, could we please banish the phrase "femslash" from writing? Why does f/f slash need it own word? Is it any less slashy than m/m. I think the only reason to have it at all is that word itself is...fun...to say out loud. It's almost suggestive. But it remains mostly unnecessary, and slightly offensive, and we need to be rid of it.

And then I trail off into oblivion....

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