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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-07-28 03:15 pm

[ SECRET POST #4224 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4224 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2018-07-31 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a member of the LGBT+ community and a former femslasher. I still dabble in f/f a bit but it's gotten so toxic I won't go in until I can completely vet that the fandom isn't filled with noxious people. I think a lot of it comes with this weird vibe from the lesbian community on tumblr right now. (Largely due to it being infiltrated by TERFs, so TERF discourse is rampant even when the people you're interacting with aren't.)

In this hypothetical case, the M/M and M/F shippers are just having fun and being silly. But so many of the F/F shippers take crack pairings and make themselves out to be victims. "If you don't ship these two pure lesbians (who have never spoken to each other ever) then you are a bigot and hate lesbians" "These two girls are lesbians." "They haven't even met, how can you tell what their sexuality is?" "Why do you hate lesbians so much? People never let us have anything! Obviously from their eye contact you can see they're LESBIANS! Screw you, you cishet!"

Compare to say the m/m shipper who is just making their content and having fun. This isn't to say that m/m or f/m ships don't have their overinvested fans who cause drama. It's just the femslash fandom around a lot of spaces has completely changed to be extremely aggro. All female characters must be lesbians, even if they have boyfriends or husbands. Bi headcanons are deemed disgusting, if you disagree with them you personally hate lesbians. If you even gently question them, then you are disgusting. They send hate to people and try and latch onto any female character. Even if there's only one female character in the series and she's married, she's a lesbian and if you disagree...well, you get the idea.

And yes, not all of the f/f fandom is like this. But a lot of the younger crowd is, and it makes fandoming completely exhausting.