For me, it's not even the violation of privacy as much as the violation of their *humanity*! The very notion that a human being is being treated like a Barbie doll creeps me to the max.
I especially don't get it when it comes to slashing the actual actors who play a couple on a TV show
I don't get that either. My pop-psychology hypothesis is that some folks simply can't distinguish between the role and the actor, because that happens outside slash too. I remember quite a lot of people chirping about how WONDERFUL and ROMANTIC and HEARTFELT it was that Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton were really really really in love JUST like their characters. And I got in a lot of trouble when I pointed out that if true, it wasn't so romantic for his wife, her husband, or either of their sets of children.
To be fair, I also know the converse; I know someone who refused to watch Reimington Steele because "they hate each other, you know, they're not really in love." Yeah, it's called acting. That's what they do for a living, and I was actually kinda impressed that they could have such onscreen chemistry considering the personal animus.
Anyway, I'm saving this to my memories. Next time one of my friends asks me why I won't read their story, I'm just going to point them here.
Thanks! I shall confess to a longing to someday write one of those thought-provoking posts that ends up all over LJ.
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:25 pm (UTC)I especially don't get it when it comes to slashing the actual actors who play a couple on a TV show
I don't get that either. My pop-psychology hypothesis is that some folks simply can't distinguish between the role and the actor, because that happens outside slash too. I remember quite a lot of people chirping about how WONDERFUL and ROMANTIC and HEARTFELT it was that Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton were really really really in love JUST like their characters. And I got in a lot of trouble when I pointed out that if true, it wasn't so romantic for his wife, her husband, or either of their sets of children.
To be fair, I also know the converse; I know someone who refused to watch Reimington Steele because "they hate each other, you know, they're not really in love." Yeah, it's called acting. That's what they do for a living, and I was actually kinda impressed that they could have such onscreen chemistry considering the personal animus.
Anyway, I'm saving this to my memories. Next time one of my friends asks me why I won't read their story, I'm just going to point them here.
Thanks! I shall confess to a longing to someday write one of those thought-provoking posts that ends up all over LJ.