[ SECRET POST #4126 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4126 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really not sure how compelling that actually is, as a piece of evidence.

Like, those tags are both a really small percentage of the overall fics within the fandom, right? So it seems more likely that it's a (relatively meaningless) fluctuation in which fans happen to decide to use that tag, rather than a full indication of what kinds of fics exist in general.

[(Anonymous)]

What does that have to do with anything? Real life example, 3% of the population is gay and 1% is asexual. Just because they are a small portion of the overall population doesn't mean there are not more gay people than asexual. It is comparing to minorities, not minorities to an entire population.

Also, I don't know if those % are accurate, I just threw two numbers out.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a few things.

First of all, I would suspect (although I'm not going to actually look it up) that the numbers we're talking about here are at least an order of magnitude lower than the percentages you listed here.

Second, those two statistics aren't the same at all. Frequency of asexuality or homosexuality is what you have in your example. But the stats in the secret aren't that. The stats in the secret tell us about one specific activity that some subset of fans do. We don't know how representative or common that one specific activity is, and that's especially true because the sample size is so miniscule compared to the overall fandoms. It's possible that, like, people on Team Steve just don't use that specific tag for some random reason. And it's also possible that most people who are stans for either side just don't use the tag at all. It's just really hard to extrapolate.

To be clear I have no dog in this fight, I don't know or care which fandom is worse, or whether either fandom is worse, I'm just talking.

[(Anonymous)]

Order of magnitude, what?

3 gay people per 1000?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, shit, no, I should have written that more clearly, sorry. I wasn't talking about the prevalence of gay people, I was talking about the prevalence of fics.

What I meant was that the prevalence of fics tagged with the tags in the OP, in comparison to the total number of fics with Steve or Tony in them, was an order of magnitude (or several) below the prevalence of gay people in society.