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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-05-02 07:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #5961 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5961 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-05-03 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
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Even if I'm someone who values representation of male and female friendship that don't lead to romantic love, I still don't get the angriness towards fans shipping such people. Ship and let's ship, you know? Just don't go into the parts of the fandom that enjoy that ship and you should be mostly fine if they're not invading space where the ship is explicitly unwelcome?

And that's not a testament on how they feel about all male/female friendship in media, just one sample, anyway. It's also not like they're influencing a trope that had happened for a very long time, so you can't even really say they're contributing to the problem (unless they're actively campaigning for the canonisation of the ship?) in a significant way?

(Anonymous) 2023-05-03 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
I think part of the problem is that it honestly feels like male and female characters are never allowed to just be friends in media. If it's not canon itself forcing a romance, then it's fandom doing the same thing. And that just gets grating after a while, you know? It's easy to find tons of fictional male/male or female/female friendship, but male/female friendship that stays friendship and never turns romantic is hard to find, so I can't blame people for being exasperated when they finally find it and then fandom is all about the shipping.