quick question for those of you familiar
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...with yaoi-girls and/or (female) m/m fans. Of those you've known/met in the subculture who prefer the m/m and avoid the m/f, have any of them ever explained the reasoning behind their preference? Beyond just the younger version of "well, m/f is icky" or the lazier version of "I just don't like m/f". Anything more in-depth, more honest, more insightful?
Because the only explanations I've ever gotten amount to variations on those two, and that's not much substance when it comes to deconstructing what, exactly, is going on for readers with the preference.
Because the only explanations I've ever gotten amount to variations on those two, and that's not much substance when it comes to deconstructing what, exactly, is going on for readers with the preference.
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Date: 4 Dec 2009 01:11 pm (UTC)Yes, but I only know about it in fandom. :) I don't encounter it in the other contexts you describe. So I can only speak whereof I know.
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Date: 4 Dec 2009 05:00 pm (UTC)The replies are still relevant (once you step outside specific fandoms), given that the current M/M craze does seem to stem pretty strongly from the popularity of slash & yaoi. It makes sense that the patterns & issues that make slash & yaoi so popular would also exist in M/M fiction. It's just the use of specific fandom-based examples that lose me, when I'm not familiar.
Though I hold that after the GW Pairing War(s), any other pairing wars -- and even wank, for that matter -- ends up being more like the Falklands War in comparison. Which I guess would mean that list-mods and comm-mods are analogues for Margaret Thatcher, which is both strangely appropriate yet somewhat disturbing.