[ SECRET POST #3076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3076 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because slash, by and large, has nothing to do with gay men or real life relationships. If representation is considered, it's secondary to the characters and pairing; slash is also written differently, covers many different genres, and shares the same tropes/styles/stories that all non-slash relationships in fanfiction have.

Trans headcanons, on the other hand, is representation that is fetishized. The identity of a character being trans is the point, rather than the actual character, and it shows. I think it's much closer in style to, say, a person kinking on a fat character or something, except it's dressed up as FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

And--even if none of you don't agree with any of this--slash is still a relationship genre, while trans headcanons are characterization. They're different categories, and it's not accurate to compare them on equal grounds.

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DA

Thank you for articulating why that comparison didn't sit right with me.

Especially for "Trans headcanons, on the other hand, is representation that is fetishized."

If representation exists as a motivation for slash at all, then it's a pretty recent development IME. Not that long ago, there was never the idea that slashy fanfic was in any way a representation, or that by writing slash alone you were some kind of ally.

Trans fanfic OTOH feels so much more like a hostile, SJW thing. And until SJWism sunk its claws into fandom, you would never have been called a homophobe for not writing a straight-as-far-as-we-know-in-canon character in a slash pairing, but choosing not to write definitely-cis-in-canon characters as trans brings all the hate.

Not to mention that the fetishizing of trans headcanons by cis writers is done for SJ brownie points, whereas the fetishizing of fantasy!gayness by straight (usually female) writers is done by and large for the turn-on, physical or emotional.