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skullhaver · 11 months ago

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genuinely has somebody made a video essay about the phenomenon of queer women enjoying fictional mlm?

sarah z gets close to this topic on multiple occasions. natalie wynn talked about it in her latest tangent and brought up some good points on identification and desire, but i still feel like it could be examined in a larger way. ppl complain about straight women fetishisizing mlm, which does occasionally happen, but in my experience the vast majority of non-dude slash enjoyers are queer women who on some level identify with one or both of the men in the relationship. over and over when people survey fan-centric sites like AO3 and Tumblr, they find that the vast majority of users are queer women.

#plus many nb people who like fictional mlm because it portrays relationships without (or with less strict) gender roles and expectations #anecdotally i would say the vast majority of non-dude slash enjoyers are bisexual/pansexual women #followed by bisexual/pansexual nonbinary people #and then honestly more than a handful of lesbians!!#and only after that followed by straight women #this might be because i know very very few straight people but still #i really think there's something to be said about people seeing themselves in broadly queer stories #plus not enjoying romantic fantasy with certain kinds of gender expectations #maybe due to inability to identify with women as people - maybe due to a lot of female characters being badly written #maybe because of legitimate discomfort with the bad parts of being a woman (esp in historical or misogynist fantasy settings)

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