[ SECRET POST #7026 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7026 ⌋

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Re: Transcript by OP

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I wish there was a bit more awareness in fandom that liking slash / M/M is a very normal part/expression of straight women's sexuality in the same way that liking lesbians / F/F / femslash is a very ordinary part/expression of heterosexual male sexuality.

Like, I get that the ships themselves are homosexual/queer/LGBT (so appreciation of them is also partly a function of LGBT acceptance), but not only do you not need to be LGBT yourself to appreciate M/M and F/F stories, but in some sense being very straight can lead to stronger/more intense appreciation of M/M and F/F pairs because of strong sole attraction to only one sex. (Of course you can also be interested in these stories as an LGBT/queer/ace/etc. person. But I'm just saying you don't HAVE to -- there's a pathway that gets there via dominant straight sexuality.)

And though I say "sexuality" here, I don't think this tendency applies solely to sexual stories. I think if you ask most straight men, they'll find a romance between two women more compelling than a romance between two men. Because they're attracted to women and that includes being more interested in hearing in detail about female characters' love lives with other women than male characters' love lives with other men.

In short, I find the "female-dominated fandom doesn't like F/F because misogyny" line so implausible. Guys, it's because fandom is dominated by straight women. I feel like more people would know this, too, if they actually hung out in places with straight men or had more straight male friends they're comfortable talking about sexual tastes with.