Well, I hesitate to say I like it when the girlfriends are entirely out of the picture
I actually do like this, but that's my RPF issues trumping my gender issues. It doesn't apply to Lindsey or Ashlee or Z, or anybody who's a fan-beloved figure, but wives and girlfriends who aren't public figures? I am completely comfortable writing them out of the narrative. I'm not fannish about these women, I don't love them, so I have no business appropriating them for my fic. (That's a pretty personal justification for writing RPF, but, you know.) I especially don't see a justification for including them in the story for the purpose of having them break up with or be broken up with by their RL partner, no matter how well it's done. That just ... feels kind of mean.
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Date: 2010-07-01 03:10 am (UTC)I actually do like this, but that's my RPF issues trumping my gender issues. It doesn't apply to Lindsey or Ashlee or Z, or anybody who's a fan-beloved figure, but wives and girlfriends who aren't public figures? I am completely comfortable writing them out of the narrative. I'm not fannish about these women, I don't love them, so I have no business appropriating them for my fic. (That's a pretty personal justification for writing RPF, but, you know.) I especially don't see a justification for including them in the story for the purpose of having them break up with or be broken up with by their RL partner, no matter how well it's done. That just ... feels kind of mean.
In general, obviously: Woot, this post ♥