[ SECRET POST #5027 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5027 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, this was me when I first got into slash/femslash fics when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. I genuinely believed that only gay folks were writing m/m and f/f right up until I start reading the comments on fics.

There was one (I think was some Naruto/Sasuke fic) where it was really a light romance and I thought that it was a really sweet fic, but reading the comments there were people saying something along the lines of 'that was hot' over a kiss, and I remember being really confused about why they would think that was 'hot' at a really romantic scene. Eventually I realized that it was something of a fetishization with a lot of straight girls/women in the various fandoms where I would see comments/posts on m/m in particular.

With that being said, I don't think it's as bad now as it was then - especially with people being a lot more vocal about their sexuality since a lot of fandom spaces were more focused on the actual fandom content than the person participating back then; so more lgbtq people are seen more as people than just 'characters' now than before - which adds another factor that simply wasn't there before.

I'm not even going to get into the absolute weirdness that were the few times I witnessed straight girls getting really excited over a gay guy irl's existence with either wanting said guys to be their new 'gay best friend' accessory, or just asking really personal questions about how they would 'do it' that certainly wouldn't be normal to ask someone you barely knew.