Fetishising is support now?
Oct. 19th, 2011 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessLooking at various articles about a couple of famous guys who have recently come out as gay, I have noticed a trend in the comments.
"Oh I would totally slash him!"
"brb writing that slash"
"Yaaay I have a new OTP!"
"I'm shipping him with X now"
"A new ship is born"
.... and so on so on.
Seriously - a life changing extremely powerful and personal moment, a moemnt that requires support and congratulations - and this is what is presented as support? Yay, a new fuckpuppet! Bring on the fetishisation! What does it even say about these people that the minute a gay man comes out that slashing them is their reaction?
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"Oh I would totally slash him!"
"brb writing that slash"
"Yaaay I have a new OTP!"
"I'm shipping him with X now"
"A new ship is born"
.... and so on so on.
Seriously - a life changing extremely powerful and personal moment, a moemnt that requires support and congratulations - and this is what is presented as support? Yay, a new fuckpuppet! Bring on the fetishisation! What does it even say about these people that the minute a gay man comes out that slashing them is their reaction?
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