[ SECRET POST #3206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3206 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Yet their slash is still het..

[(Anonymous)]

Mpreg... isn't that popular, it's always been niche. And while slash fiction isn't true to life, I can't say that it only employ het tropes. For one thing male characters tend to have a lot more storytelling opportunity open to them in canon itself, so even if you take advantage of a small bit of that, it already opens up a lot more possibility than for the average female character.

Re: Yet their slash is still het..

[(Anonymous)]

It's true that maybe many will see more potential in the male characters if sexism in hollywood means that male characters are more common and developed than the female ones. I don't think, though, that this can be the sole reason, or the main one, why some people automatically ship m/m slash in everything and label het as boring no matter what.
I think that certain people have higher standards for het and for women in general: every hot cis white man has potential, no matter how unoriginal-stereotyped, mediocre and/or underdeveloped that male character is, but some women just can't empathize with other women.
If the woman doesn't have flaws, she's perceived as a mary sue. But if she's flawed like the male characters are, the same thing that makes her the most hated in the fandom probably is something that is considered a source of interest when it comes to the male characters instead.
There are many things considered bad tropes for the female characters and het that yet, are suddenly cute and normal if the male characters in the slash ship are portrayed that way (e.g., characters being emotional and/or submissive with their partner; the relationship being their n.1 priority most important thing in their life; .. and so on)

Re: Yet their slash is still het..

[(Anonymous)]

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I don't think, though, that this can be the sole reason, or the main one, why some people automatically ship m/m slash in everything

I think another reason slash is so popular is because most of the huge fandoms right now are predominantly slash fandoms. So if you're someone who is in it for the fic, it doesn't always feel like you can get what you want from a lot of het fandoms.

For a long time I'd never been in a slash fandom, and I kind of thought, "Jeez, what's the big deal about slash fandoms?" and just presumed it was internalized sexism or whatever. But then I got into a slash fandom - a major one - and suddenly it was like, "Holy shit, this is where the party is!"

I miss having a female character as one half of my OTP (and the favorite half, usually). I miss that a lot. But truthfully, I'm not sure I can really see myself going back to het now, because when it comes to the type of media I like (live action dramatic TV shows), there are hardly any really big het fandoms to get into.

It's a vicious cycle. If more people got into het fandoms, then het fandoms would thrive and more people would want to get into them. But because they're smaller, less people are enticed into them, which means they stay small.