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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-09-04 06:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #2437 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2437 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-09-05 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Your argument seems to be that people who do not enjoy femslash do so because they are socialized to prefer stories centered around men, and that their claimed reasons for not enjoying femslash - that they are basically interested in shipping things concerning people that they are attracted to, and that they find female stories poorly written and unsatisfying - conflict and so are illegitimate rationalization. This is reasonable enough, and I think it's true that they do conflict, but I think there is another alternative to your explanation: the second claim is an illegitimate rationalization, and the first claim is basically true.

In regard to your argument about the centuries of fiction written by men not centered around stories of f/f love - I think that the reasons for that are complicated, and have a lot to do with history and circumstance, and also I think that fanfiction is a fairly narrow subset of written works generally and people don't generally look for the same things there that they do in literature generally.