[ SECRET POST #4842 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4842 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Oddly enough... I think being with female fans that did slash pairings helped me become accepting of homosexuality back when I was a very early teen.

In hindsight it is weird as fuck since slash can also be objectification of homosexuality, but I think learning to see and accept homosexual relationships as they happen made me more tolerant in turn for life. Which, at the very least, as odd as it is, I am grateful for.

[(Anonymous)]

I get this.

The problem is, growing up in the 90s, every love story that was shown as good/positive/desirable was a het love story. The media treated het romance as aspirational; it definitely did not treat gay romance as aspirational. And I did internalize that, to some degree, and it did have at least some effect on how I perceived real life gay relationships. I didn't think being gay was wrong, and I spoke out against school friends I had who did think being gay was wrong - but I couldn't conceive of gay romance as something aspirational, something swoon-worthy the way het romances were sometimes swoon-worthy. (Living in a smallish town, I'd never known any "out" gay couples in real life, so the media was basically all I had to go on.)

Slash ships are what erased that (shitty, homophobic) sense of otherness that society and the media had instilled in me about gay relationships. Slash depicted gay relationships as sexy, beautiful, and aspirational, in a similar way to how the media was constantly depicting het relationships - which was honestly something I needed in my early to mid teens, in order to break down my unconscious prejudices.