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fandomsecrets2016-08-20 03:24 pm
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(Anonymous) 2016-08-20 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)I think there's also a lot of overlap between the appeal of this kind of aggressive top/bottom slash for straight women and the appeal of hurt/comfort (for, again, largely women, though I'd throw non-straight women in there too......the lesbians, we love to see men getting the snot beat out of them). I think it comes down to this:
For a lot of women, seeing a man in a "vulnerable" position (whether emotionally, physically, or sexually) is on some level arousing. Why exactly this is, I don't know: gender roles, yadda yadda, toxic masculinity, blah blah internalized misognyny. Whatever. The point is, a majority of women in fandom want to see their favorite dude in that vulnerable position, whatever the circumstance.
Because, you see, it's always the favorite who's the bottom, regardless of their physical characteristics, their personality, or any of the things OP pointed out as possibly related. Take, for example, the SPN fandom: obviously there's variation, no fandom is monolithic, but as a rule Samgirls insist that Sam Is a Bottom and Deangirls insist Dean is the Bottomiest Bottom Ever. The logic isn't plot, it isn't characterization, it certainly isn't sound sexual theory: it's the logic of Fave.
tl;dr: straight women eat vulnerable men like crack whether they're getting their asses reamed or their fevers cooled
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