Tolerance for different viewpoints
Dec. 31st, 2003 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritOkay. I realize that my "Christian Spike" stories are a *little* out of the mainstream of BtVS fanfiction. And I can live with that. I don't bash slash stories (altho they're not my particular bag, generally)--so is it too much to ask that others show me the same "tolerance" I show them?
I guess this little rant is coming about, not because of any recent events (my few reviewers have been lovely, thanks!), but because of a discussion on a board I frequent, about the sexual orientation of the various characters in BtVS. Apparently this topic is one ripe for reasoned, non-flaming discussion. However, I have the feeling that if I opened a topic discussing religion--I would get a very different reaction. I don't really have anything concrete to base this on, other than the fact that it's probably known on that board that I write Christian!Spike, and I asked a question about one of my fics...and got zero responses, altho over 40 people looked at the post. Not one of them saw fit to say Yes, it's okay, no it sucks, what if you did THIS to clear up any confusion...
And it's probably childish and selfish to want to get SOME sort of response when I'm asking for damn HELP, and to have my feelings hurt a little when no one says "boo." Heck, it probably means that yep, I was doing fine with it, and no one wanted to waste the bandwidth to tell me so.
But it would have been nice if ONE person had said SOMETHING.
I guess this little rant is coming about, not because of any recent events (my few reviewers have been lovely, thanks!), but because of a discussion on a board I frequent, about the sexual orientation of the various characters in BtVS. Apparently this topic is one ripe for reasoned, non-flaming discussion. However, I have the feeling that if I opened a topic discussing religion--I would get a very different reaction. I don't really have anything concrete to base this on, other than the fact that it's probably known on that board that I write Christian!Spike, and I asked a question about one of my fics...and got zero responses, altho over 40 people looked at the post. Not one of them saw fit to say Yes, it's okay, no it sucks, what if you did THIS to clear up any confusion...
And it's probably childish and selfish to want to get SOME sort of response when I'm asking for damn HELP, and to have my feelings hurt a little when no one says "boo." Heck, it probably means that yep, I was doing fine with it, and no one wanted to waste the bandwidth to tell me so.
But it would have been nice if ONE person had said SOMETHING.
