[ SECRET POST #6432 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6432 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are a lot of actual homophobes who shout about that, sure. But with several instances I’ve seen, I think it was more complicated than that and had to do with both parties misunderstanding how certain other people do fandom.

Take the phrase “There is no heterosexual explanation for this.” To most people who know fandom, this phrase is a meme, an exaggeration, a way to say “I ship it.” They don’t mean it literally. But to someone who doesn’t know that, it could come off as an insistence that platonic friends could never care about each other that much or show affection in whatever way prompted the statement, and it IS reasonable to be annoyed by that viewpoint.

It’s also telling who’s being homophobic and who really is concerned about people devaluing friendship if you know whether or not they react the same way about het ships that are canonically just friends (I know I do, much more often than with gay ships) but sometimes all you see from someone is one reaction to one ship, and you don’t know if there’s a pattern or not.

[(Anonymous)]

See, yeah, this was me for awhile, especially after my best female friend and I kept having people ask us if we were dating, or when we were going to date, and turned out to be talking behind our backs about how we were obviously screwing around and just in denial about it. No, we weren't!

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It’s also telling who’s being homophobic and who really is concerned about people devaluing friendship if you know whether or not they react the same way about het ships that are canonically just friends

It's very interesting to me to see you say this because never once in a single one of my fandoms have I seen anyone complain about people shipping a male character and a female character who are canonically stated to be just friends. If anything, people tend to act as though this is just a natural progression of their relationship, so yeah, if people get up in arms about people wanting to ship two male characters or two female characters, I'm 99% sure it is in fact just homophobia.