[ SECRET POST #2814 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2814 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #402.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are quite a few male writers of slash - in fact, you've probably read quite a few fics that were written by guys and didn't realise it. I know I've been 100% convinced an author was a woman several times and been surprised when I read the author's note and realised that it was a guy. Which, you know, just goes to show that maybe the gender of the author doesn't actually matter that much. And that's the main issue I have with this secret.

In response to your S!b, um... I have literally never seen that opinion expressed, and I've been in fandom for about 15 years. I've seen people talk about why slash fandom is great for women because it is a female dominated space where women can feel comfortable expressing their sexuality - and I do think that it is an important and interesting cultural space for that reason - but I've never seen that extended to the exclusion of men from slash fandom. I've definitely seen vehement objection to outside analysis of slash fandom, but the thrust of that objection has been that fandom isn't a monolith of middle aged women, and has male and queer and younger and older voices. But idk. Maybe 'slash is empowering, fuck tha menz' is a new tumblr craze.

[ariakas]

I've been in slash fandom for a similar length of time and I've never seen it either (and I have a Tumblr)! If anything, from what I've seen of the new kids on Tumblr they'd tear someone who said that to shreds for their lack of respect for queerness/diversity.

OP might be waging war against the straw feminists in their own head.

[(Anonymous)]

Same thing happened to me when I was a teen and into yaoi (bad internet, only porn available for gay teens not requiring subscriptions ... dark ages) and thought everyone had been women. Be it cis, trans, anywhere on the feminine side of the spectrum. Surprise, surprise, lots of fellow boys having guilty pleasures.

I've seen the "gtfo menz from shash!!!!111" sentiment recently as well. As for analysis, I've seen one for men in yaoi fandoms (women as well), but it's true I didn't see one for slash per say.