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⌈ Secret Post #2925 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

My favourite slash relationships in fic are where neither side are very good at communicating their feelings and a hundred hilarious misunderstandings occur. That's a lot more plausible in a slash relationship, exactly for the standard conventions that say men aren't good at expressing emotions. When there's a woman involved, we expect her to be a lot more emotionally literate.

In real life, however, I'm the opposite. I like to be with men who are open with their emotions and don't mind showing them. I'm always baffled by those who say they can't stand men crying. What, all men, under every circumstance? I can't imagine living like that.

So perhaps if you see it as a literary convention or plot device rather than something that really exists it might be easier. In real life, I've not noticed that women are more emotionally literate than men. Some of the most emotionally repressed people I know are women.

Similarly, most het fiction is written with men as the dominant partner, while that's about the opposite to what I see in real life. It's just fantasy. A very popular fantasy that baffles me, but there you go.

In fic, I like my emotionally repressed guy slash. It's probably why I'm not big into hurt/comfort fic between two men either. It doesn't have anything to do with real life. I'd be appalled at the thought of any of the gay couples I really know being as screwed up as the slash couples I write.

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Yeah, I guess in my case, I have a hard time seeing it as a purely literary convention when it's something that actually had an impact on me personally. (Before I came out, I always figured I couldn't POSSIBLY be male, because I didn't act the way guys in the books and movies were supposed to. This caused me quite a lot of angst, especially since I had some really douchey friends at the time who liked to mock me for not being butch enough.)

For me at least, sometimes it's hard to tell when a story is "just a fantasy," and when the author really does believe it.