Slash fiction, where a previously straight character sort of implies that gay sex/relationships are better because women are just rubbish to be with.
I love reading slash fiction, so it just annoys me if i'm enjoying a story and a character says something like:
"It's was nothing like being with a woman, all his previous girlfriends just wanted to talk about shoes and clothes all day."
I know its just crappy fanfiction, but as a woman, I can't help but be a little bit insulted by stuff like that.
Anyway, I wonder if there is a femslash equivalent.
There is. Just look at all of the lesbian porn out there.
My least favorite thing about shipping same-sex characters: The "fetishization" of homosexuality.
The unfortunate implication of that is why a majority of the shippings I support are heterosexual.
I enjoy same-sex emotional bonds in stories, since two characters of the same gender will often have similar experiences that characters of the opposite gender may not be able to relate to, and can therefore come to a deeper emotional understanding of each other's positions. However, I'm not a fan of homosexual sex, and since most slash fiction is there just for the sex, I tend to avoid it.
There's also the horrendous double-standard in slash fiction, in the assumption that all straight characters would be open to a homosexual relationship, but no gay characters would be open to a heterosexual relationship. And any complaints about a slash pairing can be dismissed with "You're just anti-gay". A lot of slashfic seems to boil down to "the sex would be hot" rather than any understanding of the individual characters involved.
"OMG, Mustang/Hughes is sooo hot!"
"But... Hughes has a wife and daughter he's completely obsessed with. If he's cheating on them with
anyone, it destroys a big part of his character."
"YOU'RE JUST ANTI-GAY."