[ SECRET POST #2825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2825 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Stupid things to get mad over

[intrigueing]

The thing is, that friend I mentioned is a lesbian. I don't want to put words in her mouth so I'm a little wary of trying to say exactly what she likes, but as far as my conversations with her go, she ships slash and femslash so much precisely because slash and femslash fanfic lets her see lots of gay and lesbian fictional characters whose lives don't revolve around being gay, and gay and lesbian couples whose relationships are built on friendship, rather than entirely about Sex and Being Gay and Not Being Straight like most gay and lesbian couples in mainstream media. She compared it to how Ellen Ripley in "Alien" was such a good female character because she wasn't originally written as a female character, but as a male character who was then gender-flipped.

I think straight people may be less likely to feel that way about slash and femslash couples, and more likely to ship or slash in this narrow-minded fashion because they have rigid socially-conditioned views about how human beings are allowed to love each other. I don't want to generalize about all straight people, because I'm straight too and I know other straight people who don't feel like this, but I think the motives are frequently different.

Re: Stupid things to get mad over

[dreemyweird]

I would sort of agree with you here. Some straight fans do have this tendency precisely because they are straight.

On the other hand, AFAIA, many aggressive tjlc-ers are queer, which is... sad, really. If their treatment of fictional relationships is anything to go by, they may have some serious RL emotional issues.