[ SECRET POST #4525 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4525 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What exactly is a fandom gay male gatekeeper?

[(Anonymous)]

Generally, people seem to use it to refer to somebody who attempts to use their identity as a gay man to police the correct way to write and/or ship m/m relationships

[(Anonymous)]

I've never heard of an actual gay man doing this so I guess the cishet girl thing makes sense, lol.

I have seen actual gay men complain about inaccuracy but that's not like, policing fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Complain is a big world really :) never saw full-blown complain, people tend to more like, chuckle at inaccuracies. Same as het fans sometimes do at preteen view of sex scenes - also, not always entirely on the point due to lack of personal experience.

For me, what really matters is if the story is good.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah, I meant complain in the same way as you, like how het fans complain about fanfic in which penises hit ovaries, lol. Not complaining about the authors.

[(Anonymous)]

da penises hit ovaries

OW!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Gotta say that's my experience too. And if they do want to vent about inaccuracies or tropes on their blogs, then that's their perogative.

[(Anonymous)]

Often paired with a very generous serving of accusing them evil fujoshis of fetishising and objectifying poor gay men.

[thewakokid]

"Well, as a gay man I find this ship to be problematic, which makes you and anyone who ships it a homophobe, and if you have a problem with it, then that makes you a straight cis woman arguing about the gay male identity with an actual gay male, so I think it's clear that now the fandom has a responsibility to bully you as close to suicide as possible!"

You know the type, I'm sure.

It's not limited to the gay identity or any fandom. It's "Fandom clout achieved through identity, and wielded against people who don't like me" But a good number of slach writers who pull this shit have been outed as het cis women.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I know the type but I've never run into one that used their identity as a gay man as the club.

Or fake? identity? as a gay man. lol

[thewakokid]

Yeah, me either. Not personally. I have encountered a fair number of lesbians doing the same stuff, but I'm not directly in the slash world so I won't see many gay men - or you know women pretending to be gay men. But my GF? She has told me tales. Apparently unless you work really hard to not catch any of the meta you can see these ppl all over the place.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, I have, but not in quite the tumblr extreme case wako cited. a few years back I saw at least two for myself, and I actually didn't doubt they were men due to the mansplaining tone they took. however, they came off so sanctimonious that no one took them seriously or as representation of all gay men.

[(Anonymous)]

Never met one.