*sighs* I wish people weren't so idiotic...

[silversolitaire]

This just came in on hpslash and snapeslash. Why can't people mind their own damned business? Aw well. I doubt anything will come from this, but it annoys me nonetheless. Assholes, all of them.

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(forwarded from a Star Trek list)

Dear Fellow writers,

It has recently come to my attention that there now exists Harry
Potter Slash Fiction.ÿ

As you know,I too write an occassional piece of adult slash fiction
and believe that in fiction concerning adult characters in adult
situations where there is mutual consent this is fine as long as
disclaimers for the website is prominent and clear.ÿ As in...If you
are under 18 skiddaddle.

However, under a search in Yahoo for "Harry Potter Fan Fiction"

Many of the sites contain no such warnings.ÿ Many of the situations
are children having sex with children, along with adults having sex
with children along with bondage and violence and abuse and suicide.ÿ

These are very dark themes complete with graphic art.ÿ And as I said
before...there are absolutely no warnings on more than one site.ÿ
Some have " This is a slash site" on them.ÿ However, I want you to
think of the age of the children cruising these sites.ÿ I was 39
years old before I knew what slash was when applied as a label to
fiction.

Harry Potter was a series devoted to children audiences.ÿ Hollywood
has put together a movie for family audiences.ÿ And the commercial
hype is aimed right at children.ÿ

A simple search popped up more than six web sites with slash on
them.ÿ The people searching for these sites would be predominantly
children.ÿ Harry Potter Fiction is not going to be banned as a search
parameter for a family filter.ÿ

I'm asking you as fellow writers not to let this sort of fan fiction
go on.ÿ This is pediphilia...not slash fiction.ÿ

I am requesting that each of you write a letter to the editor of a
major newspaper in your area or to J.K. Rowling or both or the
producers to the movie to inform them of this intollerable situation
by Dec 18th.ÿ

Several Star Trek lists are doing this.ÿ If you believe in the vision
of Gene Rodenberry, you can not sit idly by and let this kind of
predation occur.ÿ He believed in the best of mankind.ÿ That we would
get to the point where there would be no more war, hunger, or abuse.ÿ
Help him continue the fight to stamp out this particular form of
child abuse.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Catherine Kay

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Several reaction to this which just cracked me up! I could kiss those people! hahaha

< This is pediphilia ...not slash fiction. >

pedi- refers to foot. It's a Latin root.

So we're essentially not writing slash, we're writing stories concerning
unnatural lust for... feet. And foot-shaped objects. My, the strange
strange connotations of Harry Potter slashed.

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Recently in the UK an 'angry mob' smashed up the house
of a pediatrician, who had a brass plaque outside her
house detailing what she did for a living. As she ran
her business form home.

Therefore

(a) They did not know the difference between a
pediatrician and a pedophile

(b) They actually thought someone who abuses children
would have a plaque outside their house saying so.

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What a strange strange world...

Comments

[sunshinegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh my god.

*seethe*

The stupidity. Oh the horror.

*growls*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

She was 39 before she knew what slash was? Good grief. Woman, most kids are not as naive as you were!

[meimi.livejournal.com]

Asides from the fact that Gene Rodenberry is probably already rolling in his grave from all the grave robbers 'borrowing' his unfinished ideas so they can sell more entertainment under his name, even though he's dead and really has no say in the matter anymore... I'd say that's an instance of a fan taking the creator's name in vain. Nice to know stupidity shows up in all ages.

[meimi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to add... nice to know they think about the precedent such a move might make... after all if the big companies start going after slash... what makes them think it'll stop with just HP slash?

[gareon.livejournal.com]

a great american senator lost an election because his opponent accused him of being a :"confirmed homo sapiens."

go figure.

wait. i want to see dirty pics of oscar wood!!!!

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Oscar? Don't know him. Or do you mean Oliver Wood, the Keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team?

My bad

[gareon.livejournal.com]

Yes I meant Oliver, I'm sorry, Oliver Wood!

::faints::

Re: My bad

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Hahaha no problem! I was just wondering if that's maybe some guy that I don't know! ^_^

Re: My bad

[gareon.livejournal.com]

hee hee but im an ignoramus who only knows him form the movie,.,

oh but what a divinity that boy is!

Re: My bad

[sunshinegirl.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh.

Oh yeah. Definitely. Yowsa. Whew.

Amy, going to see it again today *bounce*

Re: My bad

[gareon.livejournal.com]

if you know where i can get photos of that cutie, id be grateful.. sigh

or like drawings of him

wooo

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

If the idiot *does* go through with this, I suggest all HP slashers everywhere write a letter of their own to Paramount, and Paramount's legal team, and to Majel Roddenberry for good measure. I mean, if she wants to play rough...