In the interest of fairness, het shippers can bash female characters too, if they get in the way of the OTP (or even the female part of the ship, as demonstrated by all those Spuffy shippers who seemed to hate Buffy). But in het it's somewhat mitigated by the fact there's (usually) one female character they like, and it's not an attempt of total erasure of women. And I have no idea where it comes from-internalised sexism/misogyny? Sexual jealousy of strong fictional female characters?
And funny how the author of this poor epistle above (not you of course the original author) suspects homophobia as a reason to push Gwens story, but can´t make an argument without jumping on another -phobia to make a point.
It's disgusting that they hijack gay rights in order to push a sexist agenda. And it's not homophobia-they wouldn't give a rat's arse if, say, there was suddenly a gay relationship between two unattractive male characters. It's all about teh pretty boys!
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Date: 2009-10-25 09:55 am (UTC)And funny how the author of this poor epistle above (not you of course the original author) suspects homophobia as a reason to push Gwens story, but can´t make an argument without jumping on another -phobia to make a point.
It's disgusting that they hijack gay rights in order to push a sexist agenda. And it's not homophobia-they wouldn't give a rat's arse if, say, there was suddenly a gay relationship between two unattractive male characters. It's all about teh pretty boys!