[ SECRET POST #2450 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2450 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because gay romance is so different from het romance?
I'm not talking about the gender roles or fanfic tropes. I think it's weird you can't relate to two people being in love just because their genitals are the same. You don't need to like slash, but wow, saying you can't relate to gay couples just because there's no vagina involved?

I understand now why your friends call you close-minded.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I don't read femmeslash because I see little appeal in the total lack of dicks. It's not that I totally can't relate to the characters, but nothing in any lesbian sex scene does anything for me.

[(Anonymous)]

What about fic that doesn't involve explicit sex? Do you only read smut? (Just out of curiosity :))

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

If I ran across a non-explicit femmeslash story I liked the sound of (both for pairing and summary), that's fine with me.

That does not however mean I am automatically fine with rule 63'ing my favourite slash pairings. I came to like them as males, I prefer to keep one or both as males. I'll read the occasional femmeslash for canonically female characters (prime example: I am moderately fond of Madoka/Homura).

[littlestbirds]

Fanfic is written for a specific audience, and it's usually badly written too. We're prepared to overlook that because we're invested in the characters and the dynamic. Most of it is not sophisticated literature about our universal humanity, it's written specifically for people who want to see the characters bone. I knew I was into slash before I even knew what it was, and it wasn't because I was appreciating pure love stories from a lofty position where genitals didn't matter. Can we please stop judging people based on what they don't read for pleasure?

[(Anonymous)]

What's close minded is your determination to make someone justify their personal preferences.

Having no interest in m/m or f/f =/= homophobia, and it doesn't mean it isn't relatable in terms of relationships, it just means no interest.

[(Anonymous)]

You're assuming everyone ships for the same reason. For lots of people, shipping isn't just liking two characters and/or wanting to see them together. For some, it's needing to able to relate to it. It can be hard to relate to that if you're just not into that kind of dynamic.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh.... I think you're the closed-minded one for equating genitals with gender.

Gender expression matters. I prefer my ships to have one girl and one guy. Even better if the girl resembles me or if the guy is my type.

M/M ships are difficult because I can't relate to a male character and F/F ships don't work because crushing on a girl is an alien concept to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you're saying, anon. It's groovy to have whatever preferences you want (especially if you're into shipping more for the porn than anything), but the specific reasoning of not being able to relate to gay romance kind of had me raising an eyebrow.