[ SECRET POST #4488 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4488 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there are a few different reasons for this, but a point to take into account is that femslashers tend to be more uniform in general.

From what I've seen of the fannish trends in both, boyslash-heavy fandoms will have a handful of competing pairings (and by extension a handful of competing ways to ship each pairing), while femslash-heavy fandoms tend to consist of a single pairing shipped pretty much the same way. It's just a generally more cliquey way of shipping, I guess, where people glom onto whatever was done first and it becomes the universally accepted 'canon' for that fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of this also has to do with source material, though. The number of fandoms that have even one potential femslash ship isn't that high to start with, let alone multiple ones. And then on top of that, femslash shippers seem to have a much stronger preference for canon ships than slash shippers, which narrows things even further.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about the canon ship argument -- none of the the major femslash ships I've seen floating around in recent months are canon as far as I'm aware (Pharah/Mercy as depicted in the secret, Supercorp, Catradora, etc) -- but even so, you make a good point about the volume of available material. Femslash is by far the smallest of the three major ship categories, so that in itself might make people more eager to conform when a big ship does show up.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I'm thinking about things like Wayhaught, ships on CW shows, stuff like that generally? I mean, Supergirl has Supercorp and Supercat, but it also had Danvers as a huge thing for a while. Idk I'm not into cartoon and video game fandoms so maybe there's a difference there. Or maybe I'm just wrong. It's happened before.

[(Anonymous)]

Sanvers not Danvers

Stupid autocorrect messing up shipnames

[(Anonymous)]

this. i don't think it has anything to do with femslash fans ~inherently knowing~ that gender roles are especially useless in queer ships, because they indulge them anyway, they just don't argue about it.

the less girly one is dominant, not exactly a shocking deviation from norm.

[(Anonymous)]

That's true to a certain extent, I guess, but I dont think there's a fandom I've been in where it's more than like... 60-40 in one direction or the other

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good point. So much media out there has more male characters than female characters, so there's more opportunity for multiple m/m pairings whereas there might only be one natural f/f pairing you can pull without really scraping the barrel.