[ SECRET POST #2601 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2601 ⌋

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Comments

[sarillia]

I have never once seen someone get called a homophobe for saying they prefer gen. I could sort of see people saying that if you make a point of saying how much you hate slash, although that would mostly just make me wonder why you've forgotten het and femslash exist, but just saying "I prefer gen to shippy stuff" doesn't seem like it would get that reaction from even the most ridiculous people in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

+Several.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen this happen a few times. It depends on what fandoms you're in, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Over the 14 years I've been in various fandoms, I've experienced the same.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it all depends on how you voice this opinion. "I don't read much slash, I prefer gen"? No problemo. Reviewing a slash fic by going on and on about how the couple would have been better as friends? Probably going to raise some hackles. It doesn't mean you are a homophobe, but people say stuff when they're pissed.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's weird as hell but I'm sure it's happened. There are a few fandoms (okay, there's Sherlock fandom) where saying you don't ship the popular m/m pairing will get you death threats.

[sarillia]

Oh okay, I see the twisted logic now. "I prefer gen" = "I don't ship the popular m/m pairing and I read gen to escape the icky gay". Obviously I disagree but I think I see where it's coming from now.

[(Anonymous)]

But it's based on a logical fallacy.

Disliking one m/m ship =/= thinking all m/m ships are icky.

[sarillia]

Yep. I'm not saying it's a good argument in any way, I just like to try to understand these things as well as I can because it's interesting to me.

[(Anonymous)]

(original anon) Yeah, nobody's arguing that it's stupid. I'm just saying, there are people in fandom who have that kind of logic.

[(Anonymous)]

(SA) sorry, *that it ISN'T stupid

[misty_anon]

I've seen it happen. It doesn't seem to happen if people don't read het or femslash, but not reading slash can get *some* people up in arms. Like someone else said, maybe it depends on the fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. Not liking/wanting to read slash and requesting gen, just got slash fics plastered all over my request thread. :P Repeatedly. :P Even after I politely asked them to stop. :P And it was a mod doing it, so I couldn't report them. :P

This person did NOT come out and publicly call me homophobic, I should add. Sooooo maybe that's what happened with OP? Some places might not throw around the HOMOPHOOOOBE!!!!! accusation outright, but they can still do a lot to make those who don't want to read slash, feel unwelcome in a passive-aggressive way. IDK?