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Date: 2006-08-27 02:37 am (UTC)
Here via Kaite. I've recently tried to get into SG fandom, and I'm kind of puzzled by the amount of boyslash. But I *have* found a good deal of femslash out there, though most of it is of the stable Sam/Janet variety, not the crazy random female character hate!sex that makes being a Janeway whore so wonderful.

But to the point...I'm a military woman (a cadet), and I think there's something about women in the military that it's hard for the public imagination to get. Even supposedly enlightened liberals often have a perception that a warrior by nature is a brute, a guy with immense physical strength. They may not care for the military because of their views of a warrior being a brute and an asshole, but they can't adjust to the idea of a woman being a soldier or a warrior. It challenges years and years of cultural baggage and war movies.

In some ways the military as an institution is way ahead of American culture on gender roles...not to say that there aren't gender issues (I've had my share), and grumblings from lower ranks. But I'd say the upper echelons are completely committed to women being true warriors, and would do away with pesky combat restrictions if the damned Congress would let them.

So, if this makes any sense, viewers may have trouble understanding women SG characters--may consider them "weaker males", or may not understand that their decision to join up was motivated by the same reasons that motivated men--be those reasons good ones or not. I tried my own hand at "subversive" SG femslash that took on military gender issues (http://www.angelfire.com/trek/abbey/fivethings.html), and I'm working on a Janet back-story that takes on the gay ban less obliquely. However, it surprises me that there isn't that much fic that keeps Sam or Janet's or any girl's military identity intact, while slashing. (Although I've read a few really good exceptions.)
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