[ SECRET POST #4525 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4525 ⌋

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Comments

[ninety6tears]

I know what you mean. I assumed OP was referring to the kind of gatekeeping that literally says "You shouldn't be writing slash unless you're a gay guy," as there's been an uptick in that lately.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah no that's stupid. I understand the kneejerk reactive place a thought like that comes from, as a trans person seeing cis people bungle our portrayals over and over again definitely leaves me feeling like "ugh please stop" sometimes, but I also understand the solution isn't "stop writing about X group of people unless you're from X group", it's education and awareness and actually helping these writers, and having calm discussions about why certain prevalent trends are an issue.

On a tangential note, as much as the English-speaking fandom can get on my nerves sometimes, I have to say they're pretty good at internalizing and trying to do better with regards to LGBT issues. I also have one foot in Japanese fandom and Japanese fujoshi just Do. Not. Give. A. Shit. They basically think that BL is "their thing" and that they should have free reign to fetishize all they want. It's serious business in Japanese fandom too, like it's kind of hilarious from a Western POV at times because even if two people like the same pairing, say Character A and Character B together, if fujoshi 1 likes A/B and fujoshi 2 likes B/A, they'll often be like mortal enemies and there's a lot of infighting, all because they can't decide who exclusively puts their dick in who. The people who like "riba" (aka reversible/switch) are shunned by both sides lol.

Japanese fandom can sometimes make these sorts of issues in English fandom seem positively benign. :P