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DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

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Saying someone is being taught their place by being on the bottom during sex has some very nasty implications.

Or...SEXY implications.

Sure, if you consider homophobia and misogyny sexy.

Oh don't bring the unfunny wank in here, it's nice in here.

Oh, I forgot that fandom likes to ignore evidence of their homophobia and misogyny if it means they get to read about white guys fucking.

On the subject of misogyny, have you ever considered that a lot of the people writing this stuff are women, i.e., people who experience the negative effects of misogyny and sexism in everyday life, and there's a reason why that stuff carries an emotional charge?

Women internalize a lot of misogyny, it makes sense that they explore facets of it in fiction.

Fantasy isn't reality. Exploring facets of something in fiction – particularly something that you have personal experience with being on the receiving end of – isn't the same thing as buying into it.

Internalizing isn't the same thing as "buying into it."

the wank is spreading. night all.

what

Alright, then.

Fantasy isn't reality. Exploring facets of something in fiction – particularly something that you have personal experience with being on the receiving end of – isn't the same thing as buying into it.

Re: Topping preferences

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-18 05:48 (UTC) - Expand

oh my god, fandom needs to stop using this excuse to justify their problematic issues. Most people who say they want someone to bottom to teach them a lesson aren't doing it to explore misogyny in every day life, they're doing it because they want a masculine or bad or stoic character to be seen as lesser for a moment or two because it gets them off.

It's just weird when they also said (if you parent up you can read the comment) that they identify with that character.

What I need is a way to blacklist every comment that uses the word "problematic" unironically.

block tumblr

right? shit.

i go to tumblr for the graphics. fuck the rest of it.

I think you're giving fandom too much credit.

DA

I agree. There are people in fandom who explore negative stereotypes in fic, but as a queer woman I do feel like there's a lot more unrealized or internalized issues people write in fic for the sake of porn tropes. Sometimes slash fandom and some of the popular tropes for slash pairings makes me uncomfortable because it feels too fetishistic, but you can't bring that up without fear of getting attacked.

You again?

jesus fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck y'all take the fun outta everything.

...how do you even get that?

from tumblr.

Huh. That's where I get my sissification porn and my pictures of Soviet brutalist buildings. Takes all kinds, I guess.

OP here

I actually meant it in a power way instead of a physical positioning/who is being penetrated way, but honestly the discussion that spiraled off of this was more interesting than what would have happened had I been more discerning with my phrasing.

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