Why can't our cautious detective agency brains figure this out, Tyger? Something must be wrong!
And I kind of get where they're coming from with the "heterosexual men" thing - the characters in question are often meant to be heterosexual, or at least their sexuality isn't really touched on - but it rubs me the wrong way something fierce. A whole spectrum of interpretations is reduced to "you're hallucinating!" so that their back cover blurb will look interesting.
Obviously we're too busy deciphering the evidence to hunt down the root cause! Or something!
Well, maybe. Maybe. In canon. In fic, though pretty much everyone in a m/m pairing fic is either explicitly gay or bi. I've occasionally seen straight-with-an-exception, but it's pretty rare. =/ (And then you have characters like Axel, which is. THERE IS NO WAY THIS GUY IS STRAIGHT. Bi, quite possible, but straight? Are you kidding me? ...of course, I've seen people write him as 'thought I was straight but then I met you', so, yeah. People. *stinkeyes*) PRETTY MUCH! I mean. Okay, maybe even some people are in it for that! BUT CERTAINLY NOT EVERYONE, and fffff, wtffff.
In fic, though pretty much everyone in a m/m pairing fic is either explicitly gay or bi.
Yes! That's the other thing. Somehow it's deeply annoying that it seems to ignore how fandom does acknowledge that there's homosexuality involved. It's missing the point on multiple levels, with wild abandon.
Yeah, the one about the 40s+ porn searches was also interesting. However, I'm deeply unwilling to believe any conclusion these people come up with. They seem to be casting Google as a mystical portal of all answers, which is totally perplexing.
I wouldn't trust this book to have the answers to anything. It might be better than the information at the link makes it look, but as it stands it looks bad and painfully poorly researched.
That line paints a really clear portrait of who this book is supposed to appeal to, I'm pretty sure. But the bit that got to me was how women have "cautious detective agencies". WHAT IS THAT EVEN.
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(Also, hetrosexual men? What?)
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And I kind of get where they're coming from with the "heterosexual men" thing - the characters in question are often meant to be heterosexual, or at least their sexuality isn't really touched on - but it rubs me the wrong way something fierce. A whole spectrum of interpretations is reduced to "you're hallucinating!" so that their back cover blurb will look interesting.
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Well, maybe. Maybe. In canon. In fic, though pretty much everyone in a m/m pairing fic is either explicitly gay or bi. I've occasionally seen straight-with-an-exception, but it's pretty rare. =/ (And then you have characters like Axel, which is. THERE IS NO WAY THIS GUY IS STRAIGHT. Bi, quite possible, but straight? Are you kidding me? ...of course, I've seen people write him as 'thought I was straight but then I met you', so, yeah. People. *stinkeyes*)
PRETTY MUCH! I mean. Okay, maybe even some people are in it for that! BUT CERTAINLY NOT EVERYONE, and fffff, wtffff.
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Yes! That's the other thing. Somehow it's deeply annoying that it seems to ignore how fandom does acknowledge that there's homosexuality involved. It's missing the point on multiple levels, with wild abandon.
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(What.. really?)
This book caught my interest now.
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