This episode also put an ew! face on romance novels as a whole--and that's something I know a lot of romance readers feel very sensitive about. But romance is a widely known genre. Slash is not. For a lot of people, this is the first time they've heard of it, and gently as it was meant, that first time is the characters in a show they like pointing it out specifically for ridicule.
I did laugh, I'll admit. (I should also point out that, even though this is "canonical anti-wincest," it's pretty damn easy to use it to justify wincest.) But I'm really uncomfortable with show runners talking about slash in interviews, let alone on the show. I really prefer just to be left alone. Especially when the group pointing and laughing has a huge platform and those being pointed at have...no platform at all.
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Date: 2009-04-03 09:37 pm (UTC)I did laugh, I'll admit. (I should also point out that, even though this is "canonical anti-wincest," it's pretty damn easy to use it to justify wincest.) But I'm really uncomfortable with show runners talking about slash in interviews, let alone on the show. I really prefer just to be left alone. Especially when the group pointing and laughing has a huge platform and those being pointed at have...no platform at all.