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Trust me, fujoshi were fucking legendarily hysteric back in Tumblr's heyday. Anyone else remember the Sterek cookies (in an attempt to get the pairing Derek/Stiles of Teen Wolf canonized)? Or the repeated angsting over how Dean and Castiel never properly made onscreen snu-snu during Supernatural's most popular time? I'm certain someone recently mentioned the Johnlock malding as well, and trust me, bearing witness to that shit firsthand is a defining moment for how you perceive these ladies and their... "interests."I saw this the other night and got a laugh out of it. Imagine having an emotional breakdown because your gay ship turned out to not be cannon. I swear these people must be allergic to going outside
Personally, I've always felt that fandom pairing wars were essentially the nerdy girl's version of sports teams, so the heightened emotions and obsession with "winning"/becoming canon reminds me of how crazy sports blokes behave when their teams win - or especially when they lose. In a way, fujoshi are a lot less harmful than guys upturning cars or throwing burning trash cans into buildings when their
What I'm finding more shocking out of these reactions isn't watching someone endure The 5 Stages of Grief over fictional romance, it's how so many grown adult women are willingly putting their names and faces to this content. Imagine being a hiring manager searching up a potential employee and the first thing you find is her filmed devastation over the idea that two imaginary teen boys weren't declared by their creators to be rooting around in each other's assholes like pigs in search of truffles. I just don't think an automated rejection email would be able to capture my contempt.
It's a cover for their innate dismissal of women and female relationships. They act as if without dudes being dicked on display, the streets will be overtaken by homophobes with giant rainbow corn threshers to toss in any man, woman or theythem for their perversions - but ultimately, this isn't about actual homosexual representation: what these gals really want is to use emotional manipulation (by claiming "queer" content will keep children from roping left, right and center) to get their yaois immortalized in whatever stories they have personally invested in. They want showrunners to feel cornered into legitimizing their fantasies because the alternative is that said showrunners would be lambasted for their wicked, gay-hating ways, but the age of threatening creatives with accusations of bigotry to get what you want is rapidly coming to an end.So let me get this straight. Even when a show has a canon queer pairing, its never enough for these people because their argument?
(Pour one out for TiFs who never saw proper pooner popularity before everyone got sick of seeing genderweirds in all of their media; the only dominion that truly saw successful colonization was genre fiction, and even then, many will tap out the second they realize the love interest is just a girl in a disguise even Mulan would find slapdash.)
Honestly, I don't know why they don't just watch garbage like Q-Force instead; they're never content with media that was practically made for them in a lab. They're like those kids who never want their own toys, only your toys, and there will be hell to pay if you don't hand over your Barbie right now.
While I believe that was very true for a small subset of girls in fandoms, it's important to remember that some of the most popular fandoms on Tumblr were Supernatural, Star Trek, Glee, and Marvel - media that had lots of classically good-looking men to depict mewling and keening beneath one another. And that's not even counting how many were fawning over completely imaginary men like those smooth-cheeked little Voltron fellows, the pixel-chads of Dragon Age or whatever anime du jour was dominating the court at the time. Despite the impression one might get at face value, it wasn't just walking shoe store mannequins like Matt Smith or men with family trees like mating snakes' nests like Benedict Cumberbatch that claimed many a young girl's heart.It’s like their normal sexual expression has been squleched and repressed by progressivism, but instead of going away, it’s just re-emerged as a heavily warped version of what it would normally be: In the circles they run in, expressing attraction to anything that might be labeled “western beauty standards” is morally wrong and should be avoided, so all their sexual energy gets laser-focused focused on things that are the absolute opposite instead.
I would actually say that it seems like the older a lot of them got, the more... accepting their personal tastes became, especially among those who pursued transition. The taste in men I see among FTMs in fandoms these days is fascinating: many of them actually eroticize traits like beer-bellies, body odor, acne and receding hairlines! And the amount of erotic art and fiction they dedicate to these guys makes me believe that it's not just to appear body positive.
On the one hand, it's nice to know there's a lid for every pot, but on the other hand I can't help but wonder how much of their sexual appetite is dictated - or even completely operated - by "T-horny" rather than sincere desire...






















































