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fandomsecrets2023-10-18 05:42 pm
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(Anonymous) 2023-10-19 03:02 am (UTC)(link)I agree with the anon(s) explaining why the trope is misogynistic, though, so I don't really have anything else to add.
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For my part I'm one of the few people I know who sometimes writes het pairings for my fandom, and as a result I'll sometimes get bizarre comments my friends who only write slash never get by people who are offended that LGBT people have the audacity to exist and that this being a het fic makes it a safe space for them to say so. Or who lose their minds that some of the background characters are in gay relationships, especially popular slash pairings (I won't tag a ship unless it gets a lot of airtime, so to speak, because I'm so tired of being catfished by fics that tag themselves as "A/B, C/D" where C/D gets one throwaway sentence in 50k words).
It's very regressive, yeah. My theory is that at the end of the day it's just shipwank, but because these people are largely conservative, they don't dress up their shipwank in social justice terms like the (largely liberal) broader fandom does, but instead using moral terms to explain why ships that aren't their OTP are wrongthink.