Arguments Against Fanfiction

writers. The poll indicated that 52 percent of respondents to the study identified as bisexual, lesbian, or gay (Bury 2005). Additionally, tumblr user centrumlumina recently conducted a massive online poll of users from popular fanficton site “AO3”. In response to the question “What sexuality(s) do you identify as?”, only 29% of 4,000 of responders identified as heterosexual. Furthermore, in response to the question “Do you identify as belonging to a gender, sexual, or romantic minority?”, 53% of 9,589 responders answered yes. As a final point, though about 90% of respondents identified as fans of male/male slash, on about 30% identified as boy female and heterosexual (centrumlumina 2013). It seems that although the demographics of fanfiction …show more content…
Though in my experience the vast majority of fanfiction supports harsh gender roles, and is not obviously a tool for social renovation as Jung suggests, Jung’s argument that fanfiction writers are attempting to undo patriarchal values rings true and helps to highlight the problems with fanfiction that does support rigid gender roles (Jung …show more content…
One reason authors are likely portraying characters in ways that seem to conflict with their source characterizations may be that these romantically unequal, power-dynamic filled relationships are accepted as the norm in our media, and rarely are alternatives to this norm presented. Slash that at first appears subversive is not always so, and may even fortify the gender roles it aims to