is it the same in other parts of the world?...the term going for a slash means spending a penny, or more bluntly taking a piss. not to be confused with taking the piss, but perhaps this is what some fans consider slash to be about, more acurately urinating all over accepted norms? = backlash and the pro-anti slash war/debate.
In other words slash bends what is accepted and liked, even loved. Slash writers by doing this defile, in the eyes of some fans what is scared, and therefore cause offence. This may be deliberate or unwitting, the result inevidable. I spose it's similar to those sandle wearing vegetarians who decided that Noddy was gay bacuse he rode in the car with the policeman and shared his bed. the same literary lunatics then suggested Noddy be amended so as not to confuse children... Or another example the music biz. the rehash of familiar songs into different formats, the traditionalists often take offence and argue against it, sometimes with a degree of validity... Nathan.
A 'strange coincidence', to use a phrase/ By which such things are settled nowadays. Byron.
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