[ SECRET POST #4431 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4431 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I mean, another reason straight women reading or watching genre fiction (let's face it, that's the genre this happens in the most) tend to identify more with the male characters is that

1) Male writers of tv and movies who write male MCs concentrate on men's relationships and relegate women to background noise, sex objects or "guy friend with breasts" and she never really has a plot or motivation that doesn't revolve around a man. His relationship with some guy is treated as much more important and that's where all his big emotional stuff is oriented toward. Hard to identify with the woman when she might as well not be there and she's more of an idea of a girl than a real character.

2) Not only do two named female characters have a conversation that isn't about a man much less often than two men spend literally dying for each other but...I've seen otherwise great movies featuring multiple strong, interesting, complicated women who not only are never alone together or have a real conversation but in group scenes, they don't even speak to each other directly but will address the male characters instead. Hard to build a femslash ship with characters who don't even look each other in the eye when they're allowed to be in the same room and speak words and aren't being murdered for someone else's manpain.

3) I think sometimes what people really want is their ship, the way they want it. They're not as interested as they claim, in anything else.

4) Oh definitely you can support the idea of a lesbian ship in theory, because you like the characters, but if you're a straight woman the porn just isn't going to be as fun to read. And that's okay.