[ SECRET POST #7026 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7026 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

In my experience every "straight woman" into m/m I've met would come out of the closet within 2-4 years.
Actual straight women mainly read published m/f romance more than fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, your statement does not at all mesh with my experience of fandom.

And now you've met one of the many straight women who have been reading exclusively m/m fic for longer than 2-4 years - going on two decades, in my case - and are still soley attracted to men.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah no, that's not been my experience at all.

Like there are queer women who figure that out through m/m fandom, but there are also many, many straight women in m/m fandom and shipping m/m ships. There are certainly m/m ships that attract more queer women to them, but m/m by itself is not mostly shipped by queer women.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here.

Actual straight women mainly read published m/f romance more than fanfic.
This is correct! It is also 100% in line with my secret. Het romance is also very popular among straight women for similar reasons -- it involves at least one male character who is purposely meant to be attractive to straight women (paired with a female character who is meant to be viewpoint/relatable).

It is just ALSO the case that straight women are major contributors to and often the biggest enthusiasts of M/M fanfiction too. Both of these facts are true because of base rates!

I am another person for whom your first statement is just not my experience. I know a lot of straight women who are into M/M -- and F/F too, for that matter -- and still very much straight. I don't know what to say. Honestly, I don't have any straight friends who don't have at least a few M/M AND F/F ships they like (although I run in liberal circles where that's pretty normal; obviously if you were in more homophobic straight circles, you'd encounter more people without a single M/M or F/F ship they like). Sometimes you're just into the characters and dynamic more than the gender of the characters and this too is very common among het people as anyone else. I don't think anything in my secret rules this out; all that I'm saying is that heterosexuality plays a role in how popular M/M is among women and how popular F/F is among men, even if that sounds strange because M/M and F/F ships aren't heterosexual in nature.