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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bisexual-romance-heroes-have-even-snagged-harry-potter-20131107-2x4ka.html

Everything you need to know is in the meta-text.

No word-update today, because I am in the middle of a thing but have to go to bed, so it can all come together to be tomorrow's total and make it look as though I had a very diligent Saturday!

Comments

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

So Christian Grey is the "epitome of the alpha male"?????

*goes to bang head against a hard surface*

[momebie.livejournal.com]

The gay relationships depicted in fan fiction often mirror heterosexual relationships and sexuality - and I think the fact that it's written predominantly by and for women bears out the idea that it's a way of exploring heterosexuality outside of the heterosexual gender construct. This often results in a more feminised male character that really appeals to me.

On one hand, yes, gay relationships in fanfiction are largely written by women who I believe we can say are mainly straight and cis-gendered, just based on numbers. Because of this, they're not likely to reflect a genuine homosexual male experience.

Oh the other hand, as long as you write your characters as people and not tropes it will read as genuine regardless. On the other other hand, writing gay fanfiction seems like a pretty bad way to explore heterosexuality and I'm hoping that's just a typo. On the other other other hand, I get really annoyed when people talk about men being 'feminized' in fanfiction because it feeds into the stereotype that women lack the mental acuity to write men because we somehow don't understand masculinity on a level deeper than the lust in our loins, even though men have been writing women since the dawn of time and no one complains when THEY do it. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard someone refer to a male characters weak simply because they broke down under extreme duress. SIRIUS BLACK WAS IN THE WORST PRISON EVER FOR TWELVE FUCKING YEARS AND IF YOU DON'T THINK BEING REUNITED WITH HIS BEST FRIEND, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE FUCKING, WOULDN'T OVERWHELM HIM, THEN I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE WORK. Like, I've seen men cry. With my own eyes even! For many different reasons! That is not a feminine trait!

And even if it WAS a feminine trait, fuck you, I would personally really appreciate more bisexual representation that didn't demonize me as greedy or unable to make up my mind, and men dressing like women is hot.

/kicks away soap box.

Um...sorry about that.

[who_la_hoop]

What an extremely muddled article. I am not sure what point it's try to make! Am not surprised to hear that the author of Untamed is into fanfic though, I've been meaning to check the book out for a while.

[pionie.livejournal.com]

I'll just say I like the image of the heroine slowly peeling a Dracoesque man out of his Regency layers, and then leave the rest of the article at that ;)

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

And Heyer was there first with the cross dressing anyway

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

...the fact that it's written predominantly by and for women bears out the idea that it's a way of exploring heterosexuality...

Big-ass assumption failure #1: all fan-fiction-writing women are heterosexual.

Someone is wrong on the internet!

[bk7brokemybrain.livejournal.com]

Whaaaa??? I felt all muddled after reading that. I didn't understand it at all. Thank you, LJ commenters for helping me see that it made no sense at all, so it's (mostly) not my broken brain.

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