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Re: Yet their slash is still het..
(Anonymous) 2015-10-15 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)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.