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fandomsecrets2012-02-19 03:57 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-02-19 03:57 pm
[ SECRET POST #1874 ]
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-19 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-19 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)I don't go around telling people to stop liking what they like and I'd prefer people respected me in the same manner. Acting like someone preferring het is ...well you're implying we're homophobic. I don't know about the other guy but I'm not. It just doesn't do it for me.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-20 12:05 am (UTC)(link)I just wondered what was so different between genders that could stop you from relating to them, as it's something I personaly don't understand.
Oh god, it just sound worse.
I can understand not going for these pairing if you're only there for the porn, I guess... it's the part about being unable to relate to them that annoys me.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)Because every heterosexual relationship is the same, and obviously easy to identify with?
I'm not saying you have to relate, or that you're a terrible person for liking what you like, but it's silly to generalise about the sexes involved somehow being the only thing barring your way to that. I may as well say I can't relate to people who aren't atheists, so I can't get into fic unless I'm self-inserting? More likely than not, especially in fandoms involving sci-fi/fantasy, characters are nothing like you anyways, and they're put into situations you'll never relate to.
"I can't relate to this," to me usually sounds more like, "Being gay or straight (or some other factor) sounds like it completely defines a person, they're so DIFFERENT, amirite?"
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-19 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)That's exactly what I was trying to understand. I didn't want to assume anything, but... yeah.
I guess I just don't understand why some people can't just relate to other as people instead of as, say, straight-christian-caucasian-female, or something as specific.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)Yes. I get why someone who isn't any of these things wouldn't know what it's like to be that, or grow up a certain way. But to tell me it's unrelatable, and impossible to view where do they even come from to say they can identify with an HR nightmare, hot-blooded space cop for being straight/queer, but not queer/straight. What about the part where they're a space cop.
ah now I'm just rambling :( I don't ship like most people apparently though. I don't self-insert, or have to relate to a character I like (otherwise irl I'd be surrounded by people exactly like me), and I'm never attracted to anyone in my ships. But I understand why a lot of fans like those aspects, as it's fun for them. That's just boring to me I guess :(
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-20 12:31 am (UTC)(link)it's makes me laugh sometimes, because it can be really obvious to tell what an author's sexuality is by the characterization in their fic.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-20 02:54 am (UTC)(link)or even lesbian girls!
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)isn't that the point of this secret?
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)I suppose not, but I personally feel there's a world of difference between "getting off" on a ship and "relating" to it. There are plenty of things I "ship", but don't read porn about, because I enjoy the emotional interplay between the characters, and that has very little to do with gender.
Also, the logic of saying you "can't relate" to any m/m or f/f ships because you're neither a dude or a lesbian is a bit flawed, IMO. If you can't see the chemistry between two characters, so be it, but I ship a hell of a lot of SF stuff, and I'm not a giant tentacled alien from outer space.