I don't get it

[celticravenwolf]

Shippers.

Seriously, what the fuck?

For those who have never heard the term, shippers are people who are gunning for certain relationships to happen in a given popular series - according to www.urbandictionary.com it started with Harry Potter.

Now, I noticed this years ago when some online friends of mine were big into Harry Potter fandom.

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[skitty_kitty]

They ship because it's two hot guys getting it on. For the most part. They'll often times leave out canon het pairings or break them up because, and I'm only half-assedly theorizing, is that the chick's a threat, kind of taking over the spot the writer and/or reader could fill in.

Old school Kirk and Spock doesn't bother me because those two were close enough that it could have slipped into the romantic field, but yeah, some of the stuff people seem to be cool with drives me nuts, like HP and teachers boinking kids, or even better, ship wars. You ever want to laugh and be horrified, watch two young girls screech it out over who is supposed to be fucking the character, and why they're meant to beeeeeeeeeeee!

[celticravenwolf]

But where's the appeal in two hot guys getting it on? To rather pretend they're gay instead of accept that they are involved with a female character? So confused!

That young girls are objecting to anyone fucking anyone is disturbing in and of itself...

[skitty_kitty]

Well think about guys and they're lusting over two girls getting it on, I doubt it's any different.

[celticravenwolf]

I guess... Even that has never made sense to me!

In porn where there's a threesome involving two women, they usually make out. But I have never seen a threesome involving two men where the men make out - even in porn made specifically for women.

So riddle me this: if that were the case, would not a multi-million dollar industry have picked up on and exploited a penchant such as that?

Now I really have to wonder if there is an actual straight female market out there for gay porn?

[skitty_kitty]

Weeeell, to be perfectly cynical, when it comes to women and sex, the world totally drops the ball. Think about all the grief we get with BC, how no one ever really thought about a female version of Viagra for years, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if the porn industry is focused on the dudes no matter what their sexuality, because they think that's where the money is. But I bet there is porn out there for it, somewhere, because there's porn for anyone and anything if you look hard enough. ;D

[celticravenwolf]

If there is I don't think I'd want to see it anyway! Brokeback Mountain may have got some women all hot and bothered, but it ain't for me!

Heh, but yes, I agree that porn is a hugely male-oriented industry, and that sucks ass, because the only porn geared toward women is that softcore bullshit. There IS good porn specifically geared toward women (ie, involving men you'd actually want to see fuck!), the problem is that none of it is free!