The only thing I ever got resembling an explanation was, essentially, "Het is icky". That, or they didn't like the particular *female* who was being paired as much as the male (usually under grounds that the female was essentially too much of a pushover, or the female was "too annoying").
As an aside, this is something I've never quite understood. Especially in the GWing fandom, everyone gets paired with just about everyone else (yes, I've even seen 6xOtto and the rare 6xWalker; I tend to like the more unusual pairings) and I've never quite gotten the hatedom around the female characters in general. (I actually LIKED Noin, Relena did mature in time, and Sally was good folk. The only ones who gave me creeps were Une and Dorothy, and that was less because of their femininity and more over the fact they were bugfuck nuts in their own way.)
Then again, out of the three fandoms I really follow that are heavy on pairings, the primary m/m pairing tends to be selfcest (Mo No No Ke with Kusuriuri x Hyper, Breath of Fire IV with Ryu x Fou-lu), at least the BOF IV fandom doesn't get into holy wars over it (there, it really IS a matter of "het is icky" versus "yaoi is icky" versus "I don't like Mami because *I'D* rather be sleeping with Fou-lu, damnit"), and the three women that tend to be in the main het pairings have tended to be strong women (Noin, Mami, and Kayo respectively--and yes, Kayo does count, especially if you consider the strictures women in Edo-era Japan lived under who weren't nobles).
And for the record, I also tend to like both the het *and* yaoi pairings. I'm more of a fan of whom the person fits with, gender be damned :D (Probably why I tend to like selfcestuous ones too.)
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Date: 3 Dec 2009 07:11 pm (UTC)As an aside, this is something I've never quite understood. Especially in the GWing fandom, everyone gets paired with just about everyone else (yes, I've even seen 6xOtto and the rare 6xWalker; I tend to like the more unusual pairings) and I've never quite gotten the hatedom around the female characters in general. (I actually LIKED Noin, Relena did mature in time, and Sally was good folk. The only ones who gave me creeps were Une and Dorothy, and that was less because of their femininity and more over the fact they were bugfuck nuts in their own way.)
Then again, out of the three fandoms I really follow that are heavy on pairings, the primary m/m pairing tends to be selfcest (Mo No No Ke with Kusuriuri x Hyper, Breath of Fire IV with Ryu x Fou-lu), at least the BOF IV fandom doesn't get into holy wars over it (there, it really IS a matter of "het is icky" versus "yaoi is icky" versus "I don't like Mami because *I'D* rather be sleeping with Fou-lu, damnit"), and the three women that tend to be in the main het pairings have tended to be strong women (Noin, Mami, and Kayo respectively--and yes, Kayo does count, especially if you consider the strictures women in Edo-era Japan lived under who weren't nobles).
And for the record, I also tend to like both the het *and* yaoi pairings. I'm more of a fan of whom the person fits with, gender be damned :D (Probably why I tend to like selfcestuous ones too.)