[ SECRET POST #5520 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5520 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanna be able to interact in fandom without being expected to share my age and stuff. I tried signing up for a fic exchange and one of the requirements was that you had to list your age and orientation. I'm not comfortable sharing either and I know I could've just lied, but I still found it really off-putting. I just wanna squee with fellow fans and share fics like how I used to way back when I was a teen.

[(Anonymous)]

one of the requirements was that you had to list your age and orientation

Wow. I feel like that kind of thing could be (and in all likelihood probably has been) used against people. Like, why do they even need to know that? Nobody ever made me share anything about myself aside from what I would really like to get in return when I signed up for any exchange.

[(Anonymous)]

The last exchange I signed up for just asked me to list what I liked and didn't like, so I was confused that this one basically wanted me to fill out an application (there were five other pages on the sign up section, but I didn't get past the first one with the basic info). I guess the rationale might have been to keep an adult from getting paired up with a minor for the exchange, but there's already a rule that everything needs to be PG-13 at most, so . . . yeah, I dunno. And I have no idea why they'd need to know my orientation.

[(Anonymous)]

I joined a writing group recently and they asked for my age and I freaked out. I don't know. I just want to exist in my fandom space, why do I need to share my age?

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes, that's awful. I've co-modded exchanges before and I cannot imagine thinking it's okay to ask personal and invasive questions like that. Also it would make the spreadsheet such a nightmare - like we're supposed to match people on orientation as well as their fave characters and Do Not Wants and all that? Ain't nobody got time for that.

[(Anonymous)]

Wtf why would they need your orientation? It's not a fucking dating app.
I suspect this has a lot to do with the whole "your opinion can be dismissed if you don't identify as any type of queer teehee" that's going on in some fanfdom spaces.

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes. I wouldn't be comfortable either. (Anything other than Over 18 Y/N is none of anybody's bloody business.)

[(Anonymous)]

That's super weird. I understand age (to filter anyone who want/don't want NSFW contributions) but orientation? Totally not necessary.