[ SECRET POST #2339 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2339 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can see the argument for the safety appeal. As you wrote below, it is a big part of the male pop idol appeal to teenage girls. And honestly, many teenage boys are obviously going to be softer, less hairy, etc., than full grown adult men, so it may also be the familiarity of that look to teenage girls. I remember thinking men in their late twenties looked so old and weird when I was 15 or so, so finding that attractive didn't really make sense to me.

I think the observations become gross when they start to play on the Real Man tropes and ignore that real live people are attracted to very, very different things. So the stereotype of certain BL/slash fans' preferences becomes a way to perpetuate the "alpha" vs. "emasculated" dichotomy, or the "silly teenage girl" vs. "grown-up with real grown-up sexual desires" dichotomy.