Poll Day - Should Stories Be a Forum For Personal Crusades?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I missed the last Thursday of the month, but with Easter goings on and Easter Eggs on mfuwss we'll just take today as a make-up day.
So here's the question, for both writer and reader as usual.
[Poll #1905733][Poll #1905733]

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I don't see how putting two men into bed is a social, political, moral or philosophical statement. It's purely gratuitous from my POV, especially when it's contrived and not believable. There needs to be an understanding about what is purely for personal satisfaction and what is truly a statement about current issues.
Then again, when it comes to MFU I'm very opinionated.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't understand your objection: I was precisely stating that, though hating the waging of ideological agendas in fictions, I was looking for some serious reflections rather than "getting the boys into the same bed" being the only aim of the story. (I like slash but not an exclusive sex interest in even the slash labelled stories). I wanted to distinguish the PC "attitude" from a genuine effort at thinking and describing real social or moral issues with honesty and subtlety.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

OH, well it sounded as though you were bored with putting men in bed together in that fandom. In any event, in most stories that subject matter isn't about anything socio/political so that still stands as a statement on my part. Otherwise... we're back to each of us looking for something different perhaps.