[ SECRET POST #3519 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3519 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

People consider this trope as unrealistic? Maybe I have weird friends or something but I know three couples for whom their SO is the opposite sex to their preference and they're madly in love with them all the same. I'm talking like these people are very, very mildly homoflexible and heteroflexible, not even a Kinsey 1 or 5.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they do. There's lots of complaining about the "straight but magically gay for only you" trope in slash. I think the preponderance of secretly gay all along fic in recent years is in response to that being such a common complaint before.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Honestly I find the latter more homophobic to be honest. One is actively retconning a character's sexuality, where the other is more...expanding on it in the fluid nature I've witnessed in real life sometimes happens. It's also much more real in the fact that for instance, a guy who is predominantly, functionally heterosexual who suddenly falls madly in love with his best bro isn't suddenly "magically gay", he's still the same predominantly heterosexual dude he was before and his sexual and romantic behaviour would more accurately be described as "heteroflexible" rather than "gay". I think the latter "always gay" thing sounds more like forcing a person to come out of a closet that they may not necessarily have ever been in, and it forces the gay label on people for whom sexuality is much more fluid.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly, and falling for the best bro doesn't mean he's suddenly magically open to all other men either. That's not how it works.

It's one thing if fans declare someone is 100% straight instead of 99% straight, or them making homophobic comments about it, but that's more about how fans treat the trope than the trope itself.

[arcadiaego]

I think it's because in media it's often used as a way to imply the character isn't 'really' queer.