[ SECRET POST #3588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why are people so fixated on opposite gender friendships without sexual tension?

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's rare? Because good friendships are neat to see? Because so many factors make this difficult to achieve in real life so it's nice to see it in media?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I like my fiction to reflect reality rather than some ideal of it.

[ketita]

I mean I like my fiction to have magic and dragons, but you do you.

[(Anonymous)]

I like my fiction to have magic and dragons and realistic human interactions?

[ketita]

A girl being friends with a guy is hardly "unrealistic".

[(Anonymous)]

The anon I replied to said: "Because so many factors make this difficult to achieve in real life..."

Which I agree with. It's their reason for wanting to see it in media. It's my reason for NOT wanting to see a perfectly pure male/female friendship it in media. That's what I was responding to.

[(Anonymous)]

difficult to achieve in real life =/= unrealistic

[ketita]

So you don't want to see in fiction things that might be less common in real life? ngl, that sounds kind of boring.

[kookieburra]

I don't know- I think male/female friendships that are truly just friendships are actually much more common than seen in media. While I think they are less common than same sex friendships, I feel like they are definitely present. In my experience (n=1, so clearly I have made a large, randomized study of this), I've made many friends who are of the opposite sex without having any romantic/sexual crossover.

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt that's entirely true, and even if it were, it sounds awfully condescending.

[(Anonymous)]

How so?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I like the "good friendships" aspect of it, and it's pretty rare in fandom, where shipping is paramount.

[leisuretime]

Because opposite gender friendships with sexual tension - usually ending in romance - are pretty common.

[(Anonymous)]

It's common because people enjoy it.

[(Anonymous)]

^ non sequitur

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's nice to see both male and female interesting characters on screen without any (though usually the women) being reduced to only "love interest" and therefore at greater risk of languishing with less character development or screentime.