There's different kinds of caring. I'm an absolute whore for hurt/comfort stories (as long as they're not overly melodramatic). I want to see the team caring for each other, but there's a difference between "you're my team member, and I care for you" verus "you're my friend, and I care for you" verus "you're hot, and I care for you."
It may just be that I'm a slasher, but it seems like it's harder for shippers to write a gen story and keep it strictly gen. Perhaps because from their POV, it is something happening on their TV screen (or at least could happen), so they consider it gen.
Slash is a lot easier to play off as "buddy stuff" both onscreen and in fic. Ship has a lot more baggage to deal with, because apparently in TV land, it's impossible for men and women to be friends without sex coming into play, so it's easier to "see" it, even if the writer didn't intend for it to be read that way.
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Date: 2006-08-02 03:10 pm (UTC)It may just be that I'm a slasher, but it seems like it's harder for shippers to write a gen story and keep it strictly gen. Perhaps because from their POV, it is something happening on their TV screen (or at least could happen), so they consider it gen.
Slash is a lot easier to play off as "buddy stuff" both onscreen and in fic. Ship has a lot more baggage to deal with, because apparently in TV land, it's impossible for men and women to be friends without sex coming into play, so it's easier to "see" it, even if the writer didn't intend for it to be read that way.