jumpingjacktrash:
blueghostghost:
New slash fic pet peeve: When every female character is trying...
New slash fic pet peeve: When every female character is trying to get the MC a boyfriend/digs for info about his relationships. Is this someone’s reality or just some writer fantasy about how women relate to gay men? Because I hang out with a lot of gays and 98% of the time we don’t really talk about that shit.
it’s how a certain subset of high school girls interacts with gays. kind of a messy collision between slumber-party-gossip culture and ‘oo i wanna see cute boys kissing’. i think seeing adult women written like that is a sign the writer is pretty young.
Haha, I had a crazy (but hot) girlfriend in high school, boys kissing were distant background noise to what my hormones were getting up to. Yeah it took me awhile to figure out what was so irritating for me about these fics and then I realized all the male side characters were actually friends with the MC and they might care if he gets the love interest (because they want the friend to be happy) but they are there because of the friendship and all these female characters were just being terrifying pushy idiots and I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that? Agree that from a ‘male’ perspective women look like aliens? It certainly makes me want to be more conscious of that the next time I write a female friend. I’m not saying I don’t think there should never be that nagging, care taking, banter thing between the guy and his gal pal but when they aren’t close friends and it isn’t solicited it’s somewhat creepy to me.
