I think calling it Non-Slashers Unite sends a really wrong signal. I can kind of see their reasoning behind the comm as it can sometimes be a bit hard to find het and gen stories within some fandoms as the slash can drown them out but that's what specific gen or ship communities are for surely? For me it's about the couple rather than the sex they are, there's some couples I like to read about and others I don't.
I just find it really odd to define yourself by what you are not, maybe they just don't realise the implications of that so maybe give them the benefit of the doubt and ask. I wouldn't say that a comm that only includes het stories is homophobic in itself, some people just aren't interested in reading same sex relationship stories and there's nothing wrong with that, we don't all have the same interests it's what makes the world interesting. But I do have a problem with a comm set up to be anti something, they've made a wrong step there, hopefully in naivety not homophobia.
I would say to withdraw your fics from the comm, I really don't like the idea someone could attribute something like that to you when you had no control over your fics being there!
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Date: 2011-07-18 11:30 am (UTC)I just find it really odd to define yourself by what you are not, maybe they just don't realise the implications of that so maybe give them the benefit of the doubt and ask. I wouldn't say that a comm that only includes het stories is homophobic in itself, some people just aren't interested in reading same sex relationship stories and there's nothing wrong with that, we don't all have the same interests it's what makes the world interesting. But I do have a problem with a comm set up to be anti something, they've made a wrong step there, hopefully in naivety not homophobia.
I would say to withdraw your fics from the comm, I really don't like the idea someone could attribute something like that to you when you had no control over your fics being there!