[ SECRET POST #4688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4688 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This might turn out to be a controversial statement (I honestly have no idea), but I feel like 98% of the time, slash fanfic feminizes the characters, to one degree or another.

Like, I don’t believe there’s one way that all women inherently are and another way that all men inherently are. But there are definitely ways of writing a character that make them come off more traditionally feminine as well as ways that make them come off more traditionally masculine. And IMO the characters in most slash fanfic feel way, way more relatable to me, as a woman, than the majority of male characters, written by men, in original fiction.

The thing is, I kind of get where you’re coming from, in that I often find it hard to relate to original male characters written by men. And every so often I’ll come across a fanfic where the characters are written in a very masculine way and I usually end up back-clicking because I just don’t vibe with them when they’re written that way.

But the majority of the time, I personally find the characters in slash fanfic very relatable - in part because to me they tend to come off as very gender neutral, sometimes even coming across a fair bit “girlier” than I am myself.

All that said, YMMV, and you do you. There’s nothing wrong with your preferences or your reasons for having said preferences.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're right about the feminizing, and I think it happens because women write men the way they wish men would be. And when a man criticizes it because real men aren't like that, my response is, that's on you. Real men could be like that if they weren't taught to be so afraid of being seen as feminine (and if we stopped characterizing those traits as feminine and feminine as bad).

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*Applause*