lodessa replied to your post “Biphobia in fandoms is the bane of my existence honestly…”
I’m never sure whether people who want to ship characters with a same sex character feeling the need to illegitimize existing opposite sex canon relationships they have had is more annoying or the pearl clutching you can’t ship this person with same sex characters because their canon relationships haven’t been response is more annoying.
They both are very annoying and I’ve dealt with both. I’ve also dealt with people, in the latter case, accusing everyone who shipped the same-sex pairing of being fetishizers and only in the fandom for shipping instead of genuine fans.
Sigh. I know this has been going on since before I was born, let alone joined, fandom but I am still tired of it… and I’m a straight woman who primarily (not exclusively) writes het.
Glad to see you speaking out about it as a straight person. Having allies is nice.
just wanted to add a little comment about being careful with your language. saying “opposite sex” implies men and women are opposites and there are only 2 genders.
Gotcha. I’ll keep that in mind for the future.
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