[ SECRET POST #2003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2003 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[anonymouslyyours]

I agree with what you said in some cases but usually the more immature (and prevalent) slashers seem to fixate on one of the men and talk obsessively about being with him and I feel like in those cases the second guy is being used as a non-threatening placeholder. And a lot of the time I wonder if it's just internalized misogyny coming into play and they think they're the only "not one of those girls" and therefore the only woman who could really understand him.

/There's my overthought for the day?

[(Anonymous)]

The general consensus between myself and some of my friends when we talked about this kind of situation once was that it was pretty much seen as whether or not you feel like you "failed".

The mindset was, if you lost a guy to another girl there always could have been something you could have done to get him instead, like look prettier, be nicer, be more outgoing, anything. So you failed where you possibly could have succeeded.

OTOH, if you lost a guy to another guy there's really no competition. You were pretty much out of the fight from the beginning. It was an impossible to win situation i.e., it shouldn't count as a failure.

And yes, I know we're talking about celebrities and not people the women in question know IRL. But from what I've seen most of these obsessive fans seem to emotionally relate to the celebrities as if they did actually know them IRL, so I still feel it's a valid argument.

[hiyami]

Oh, I hadn't seen that reply, and yes, that's exactly the conclusion I reached too.
If the guy of your dream goes out with another man, you don't ask yourself "Why oh why, what does he have that I don't?!", because the short answer is "a penis". And even if it's a joke and more complicated than that, I guess it feels less humiliating to simply not be in the realm of possibles because of a gender mismatch, rather than thinking that he'd never date you because you're not pretty enough, or charming enough, or famous enough, or whatever.

Which, in the case of fictional crushes, is usually the case. If you're not a top model and have contacts in the industry, your odds of dating a famous singer / actor are close to zero.