Peer Reviewed Why Certain Same Sex Relationship Are Fetishized Over Others
On a contempo night I was lying on my bed in total darkness while scrolling through the timeline of my secret Twitter business relationship, or, more precisely, my Kpop fandom account. I was laughing at some memes, when one tweet piqued my interest. Information technology was past a Kpop group fan fiction author that I follow – let's call her "Lyla".
The tweet goes something like this; "Imagine coming (under attack) by a fan fiction writer for 'fetishizing gay relationships', while (they) write about non-consensual relationship."
Evidently, Lyla was beingness defendant of fetishizing gay relationship because she wrote fan fiction about same-sex pairing. The person who accused her of doing it, meanwhile, writes not-con (short for non-consensual), which is a human relationship built without consent of the other party, a pop just problematic fan fiction theme.
A little note, before I go farther: This article uses several terms that might exist strange to those who aren't familiar with fandom culture. I'll try my all-time to explain some frequently used terms.
Fan fiction (or fanfic) are stories written by fans, sometimes with different plots than the original or contrary to things that really happen in the original work (hence, an Alternate Universe or AU). But a fanfic story does not always have to have place in an AU; information technology tin can exist simply a small-scale alteration from the original plotline or premises. These stories are published on websites such every bit Fanfiction.net or Archiveofourown.org (AO3). The Indonesian regime has blocked Fanfiction.net, and so allow's pray they won't do the same with AO3.
Adjacent is send, which comes from the word "human relationship". Transport occurs when fans pair a sure character with another grapheme. Sometimes from the same fandom, sometimes not. Those who ship are called "shippers".
Now let'south go back to the tweet.
Later on reading it I immediately check the responses to find out what happened. I want the "tea" or gossip: who is fighting who. Of the replies, I constitute two that were interesting. One of them said that people who accuse a fanfic writer who writes most same-sex pairing of fetishizing are, in fact, homophobic. The other asked, sarcastically, "Are gay people not allowed to exist written in fiction and the media because it'll be fetishizing? It is odd to call back that being gay is worse than non-con".
This made me think: Is writing or reading gay relationship fan fiction the same equally fetishizing it? And is calling out someone every bit fetishizing a homophobic behavior? I tried to detect the answer, but this is sensitive topic to talk virtually inside the fandom – so sensitive information technology tin really crusade a fight.
Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny
Not long ago my friend Cat and I talked about fetishizing gay human relationship in Chiliad-popular fandom. Fetishizing gay relationships has always been a fence, not only in K-pop fandom but in nigh every fandom that has always existed. The core question: Is it fetishizing or not?
As we talked we constitute a rather interesting blueprint. Often those who like to fetishize gay relationships are heterosexual girls with homophobic tendencies. Sometimes we'll find them on Twitter or any other social media platform (if you look closely and difficult enough). You would find, for example, some fans saying something like this; "Oh, I dear this ship. Recommend me some good fanfic of them, please." But when y'all asked their comment on the LGBTIQ they're going to say "Oh, I hope my idol isn't similar that. I want them to exist normal."
The same people who appropriate gay relationship as well have internalized homophobia. For them, a gay relationship is nada more than mere entertainment to satisfy their fantasy.
That behavior mirrors the mode heterosexual males objectify lesbian human relationship because they think it'due south "hot" and simply be to satisfy men'south sexual desire.
Those shippers represent merely the bad side of the fandom. Not only is it harmful for the fandom and the LBGTIQ+ customs, information technology also shows blatant misogyny.
For case, concluding March a female glory got into a dating rumor with a rapper from a very famous K-Popular grouping. The rumor created an uproar within the fandom, which is kind of funny considering the fans started the rumor itself.
One half of the fans supported the rumored relationship, saying, "It's okay. Why would we hate them if they're dating? It's their rights to date someone."
The other half, however, went: "Don't you lot dare appointment him, beastly hussy." They sent hate letters to her social media account, and nothing to the human.
The agency later denied that they were dating, and the frenzy died downward. Only an interesting turn of effect happened around the second and third week of July. The aforementioned male rapper gave a present to his male friend and fans started to transport them.
The reaction to the send were dissimilar than when a female was involved. Instead of sending detest letters the way they did to the female celebrity, they expressed their dear for the idea of the male celebrity being in a same-sex human relationship, solely because information technology feeds their sexual fantasy.
They prefer their idol to date male person than female considering it suits their fetish. Or they would rather have their idols engagement men than women who aren't them.
Toxic Shippers
I want to analyze that this is non the face of shippers. Nosotros must understand not all them take these traits. There are differences betwixt fetishizing shipper and not-fetishizing shipper. Those who fetishize belong to the toxic part of the fandom. They can't distinguish what'southward fantasy and what's existent. They would push their own agenda to objectify gay relationship to other people.
Those who don't fetishize know which is reality and which is fantasy. They belong to the healthier part of the fandom. They will back up their idols regardless of their sexual or romantic orientation. They ship not to objectify them, merely because they like the pairing's chemistry. Therefore, they understand the boundaries and know when aircraft has become toxic and must be stopped.
At that place is null wrong with shipping aforementioned sex relationship and reading fanfic, as long as information technology does not harm other people. The problem lies with those who do information technology to satisfy their fetish. This applies to the writers equally well every bit the readers.
For me, ship and fan fiction gives me the feeling of finally being represented equally a queer. I ever find TV shows, books, or movies forcefulness unnecessary heteronormative plots and relationship. They rarely show queer relationship, or if at that place is any, it would exist either tragic or sad. I've had plenty with the lovey-dovey hetero stuff. What I demand to see is representation of happy queer relationships. Fan fiction gives me exactly what I need.
But just because someone ships same sex relationships it does not make them an marry. Being an marry is much deeper than simply shipping inside a fandom.
This is an important discourse to be disscussed inside the fandom without having to yell at each other, so nosotros can terminate problematic behavior, and back up our favorite idols in a healthier fandom eviornment.
Many times I saw non-toxic fans tried to brainwash others through "tweet threads" about pratices that are offensive to the LGBTIQ+ community, but oft their voices get tuned out because rather than educating themselves, fans prefer getting into petty fights with other fandoms. Withal, I recall they're fighting the good fight, informing those toxic fans that their behavior is wrong and unacceptable. It is something fans must continue doing: the more than we talk nigh it, more people will acquire and sympathize.
Tabularasa is an avid fanfiction reader who dreams about adopting 16 cats and knitting sweaters for them.
Source: https://magdalene.co/story/fetishizing-gay-relationship-when-ship-and-fan-fiction-turn-toxic
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