[ SECRET POST #2287 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2287 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/4mSggl0.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It's the same reason men love hot lesbians

fixed that for you.

[(Anonymous)]

ugh, no kidding.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, you're right, slash fandom is quite different in that regard, focusing so often as it does on terribly unattractive men.

If anything, that makes the analogy more precise, not less.

[(Anonymous)]

Speak for yourself.

[gobbledigook]

Yes. I'll take my lesbians at the lowest temperature possible, thanks.

[sugar_spun]

Oh my god what a cute kitty.

Also, even if it's that's the case for most people, who cares? They'll figure out their sexuality, let them. What if it does help them figure out something new of themselves, something you'd see crushed because you're mildly annoyed.

[(Anonymous)]

Not always. People can like things for different reasons. And maybe those girls freaking out are legitimately questioning their sexuality, which can be a long and frustrating process. Why does it matter to you?

[kaijinscendre]

I think every pairing I have been into has been 70% looks, 30% interaction. Looks come first, then interaction.

[making_excuses]

Entertainment for me is watching attractive people doing things while being prettier and having better dialogue than ordinary people.

[silverr]

This [RATHER BIGGISH] secret made me laugh.

[(Anonymous)]

Um, perhaps I've missed a corner of the internet, but how exactly does a girl reading slash end up questioning her sexuality? IDGI.

Guy reading slash, sure. Girl reading femmeslash, sure. Gay guy reading het and realizing he's fantasizing about being the guy penetrating the girl, maybe. Asexual reading anything at all...

But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how someone could legitimately question their sexuality based on fetishism of a relationship between two people with which they do not share a gender.

[(Anonymous)]

I wondered the same. Slash fans get a lot of stupid ideas, but I have no observed this particular problem.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it has something to do with the assumption that someone who supports gay rights (yeah, I know, =/= reading slash, but I think to some people "supporting" extents to"enjoying media with gay people in it" and in the worst case "not openly disapproving of homosexuality) is gay themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen it before. The questioning comes with them wondering if being straight and getting off at the thought of two guys is somehow not normal, since straight women enjoying the thought of two men together isn't really something that's talked about as much as straight men finding two women together is hot. When it is talked about (outside of most fandoms, that is), it's generally treated as weird or somehow deviant, so I think a lot of fans who are young and haven't stopped to think about it before think this somehow makes "deviant" and less straight, too. Flawed logic, definitely, but I can sort of see where people are coming from, if they're young and/or sheltered.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, for me it went like:

Discover fanfiction > Discover slash fanfiction > Read a lot of m/m at first because it was more readily available > Become slightly more comfortable with the idea of a same sex relationship/simultaneously start noticing girls more because I was at that age > Struggle with confusing feeling for a few more years > Finally accept self as a gay woman.

I would have discovered my sexuality eventually anyway. This was just how it happened. Suppose I never read fanfiction, but instead befriended a group of gay dudes. That probably would have led to me questioning myself. Yes, they're guys, but since we're lumped together in the 'gay' category, we'd have that in common.

Sexuality and gender identity kind of crisscross a lot too. For a lot of us, especially during the teen years, it's like a puzzle that we have to figure out and we might try on different identities. Some girls spend their early years wanting to be a boy, and later realize that they are in fact, a gay/bi/queer woman. Some people identify as lesbian, and later come out as trans* guys.

Basically what I'm saying is we all have different experiences and different ways of seeing the world and figuring things out.

[deenaa]

Uh. I can put my hand up here and say that as a confused teen, reading slash did make me question myself. My reasoning went that if I was heterosexual, then why would I be interested in ~teh gay~?

Of course, I also had a lot of misinformed and dumb opinions/ideas on how being gay actually worked, so that didn't help AT ALL. It was only after I got a bit less stupid that I realised that it really doesn't work like that.

However, I do think that I enjoyed slash because there were no girls in it. Hetero smut aimed at women always seemed to have that 'insert your face here' kinda feel to it and that made me very uncomfortable. Slash let me have my dumb teenage libido without being uncomfortable with the fact that I personally wanted nothing to do with anybody, male or female.

[anivad]

well, I have had lesbian friends get confused over why they enjoy m/m slash.

[(Anonymous)]

Giant kitty!

His eyes are hypnotic. Stare into Giant Kitty's eyes and he will know all your porny secrets...

[(Anonymous)]

Big secret is BIG

[blitzwing]

Arrogantly large secret )':

too good to shrink your images down like the rest of us?

[anivad]

some people don't have image-shrinking privilege, okay?

[(Anonymous)]

Plastic noses? What?

[(Anonymous)]

Speak for yourself, OP. I read a mix of het and slash because I love chemistry between the characters. If it had anything to do with their looks, I could stomach all the stupid OOC the annoying little teenyfanners spew out since their parents stopped restricting their internet access.

[ghostofcairo]

Pretty much this. I'll ship m/m, m/f, and f/f, and it's all about whether I like the characters' chemistry/dynamics rather than their genders. Looks don't even factor into it all that much either, because I ship plenty of pairings where I don't find either of them attractive but still think they have a ton of chemistry.