Shipping for all the wrong reasons
I spend a lot of time on tumblr. As a visual person I enjoy the format of images being constantly streamed to me.
However there are also text based posts that float around and they're usually pretty short. Sometimes I sigh heavily at them though.
Today I saw one that was very eloquently written about gay characters in mainstream media. It was of course about how fandom fetishizes these white and male characters and about how that is bad. It ended with a little rant about how shipping should be about chemistry and not about how attractive the couple is.
...-sigh- Apparently the fact that lesbianism has for years been (and still is) treated as an offshoot of heterosexuality and being for the male gaze just doesn't register with people.
However there are also text based posts that float around and they're usually pretty short. Sometimes I sigh heavily at them though.
Today I saw one that was very eloquently written about gay characters in mainstream media. It was of course about how fandom fetishizes these white and male characters and about how that is bad. It ended with a little rant about how shipping should be about chemistry and not about how attractive the couple is.
...-sigh- Apparently the fact that lesbianism has for years been (and still is) treated as an offshoot of heterosexuality and being for the male gaze just doesn't register with people.