[ SECRET POST #3237 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3237 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT I think it's that the vast majority of female characters are written a certain way in relation to the male character. It's not necessarily that a female character is a crappy character, so much as that her character, specifically as it relates to her love interest, is cliched and/or bland and/or gender normative.

In cases where this isn't true - where a female character is written as having a love interest, but is not written as bland/cliched/gender normative in her relationship to him - there are often other reasons why the pairing doesn't spark shippers' interest. Perhaps the characters aren't written as equally important characters; that tends to make them less ship-tastic to a lot of people. Or perhaps the tone of the show simply doesn't encourage shipping.

A lot of shippers are attracted to subtext and fanon. Slash is really good for that. If there were more shows where there were two equal lead characters, of different genders, and the writers didn't hit you over the head with a bland, obvious romantic story line between them, I honestly believe there would be way more popular het ships. I mean, look at Mulder/Scully. That pairing was HUGE back in the day. Was it a coincidence that it was also, for the first five seasons, almost entirely subtext and fanon? I think not.