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eleanorjaneI do not understand fan authors who will AUify Pacific Rim so that Chuck Hansen lives, specifically so they can slash him with Raleigh, when Raleigh has a canonical het love interest with whom he has massive chemistry.
I mean, I get that some fans are exclusively slash fans. And I am all for giving heteronormativity the finger. (Hur hur hur.) But I am so sick of women being disappeared so that people can tell even more stories about dudes, and it makes me doubly sad when it happens in fandom, because I can't shake the feeling that we are better than this, and deserve better than this.
(Caveat: no offense intended to people who were genuinely interested in the dynamic of the two guys in question and wanted to explore that. It's the trends, not the specifics, that are ensaddening.)
I mean, I get that some fans are exclusively slash fans. And I am all for giving heteronormativity the finger. (Hur hur hur.) But I am so sick of women being disappeared so that people can tell even more stories about dudes, and it makes me doubly sad when it happens in fandom, because I can't shake the feeling that we are better than this, and deserve better than this.
(Caveat: no offense intended to people who were genuinely interested in the dynamic of the two guys in question and wanted to explore that. It's the trends, not the specifics, that are ensaddening.)