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It bugs me that lots of transformative fandom analysis tend to assume that everyone who's into erotic fanfic is a bottom / sub who identifies with the passive partner
NO, SOME OF US ARE DOMS/TOPS AND ARE REJOICING IN READING / WATCHING THE BOTTOM GET RAILED HARD
NO, SOME OF US ARE DOMS/TOPS AND ARE REJOICING IN READING / WATCHING THE BOTTOM GET RAILED HARD
Lots of us aren't using the receptive partner as a proxy to enjoy sexuality without guilt
We're into the active partner POV / as a "voyeur" delighting over every moan and sigh of that bottom getting OBLITERATED
We're into the active partner POV / as a "voyeur" delighting over every moan and sigh of that bottom getting OBLITERATED
That's probably a very overlooked aspect of m/m fic: it's one of the very few media that rejoices on a guy acting vulnerable and passive for real, instead of "just being 50% in control on the GF's birthday" like in mainstream f/m romance.
Het femdom and f/f have a dominant woman, for sure, but the former tends to make the domme a service top or it's from the guy's POV and lingers on how hot the domme is in her fetish wear and f/f... still has a bottom girl, when we are just tired of watching them for a while)
And like, my bi ass enjoys making that subby girl OBLITERATED sometimes, but it's not the same thing as obliterating the guy because of gender roles: one is more of the same, the other subverts :P
"But-but it's between two women! It's not the same thing"
SURE IT ISN'T, BUT NOT IN THE MOOD TO READ ABOUT A SUBBY GIRL TODAY. WHAT MATTERS IS WHO'S THE SUB, NOT THE GENDER OF THE DOM
SURE IT ISN'T, BUT NOT IN THE MOOD TO READ ABOUT A SUBBY GIRL TODAY. WHAT MATTERS IS WHO'S THE SUB, NOT THE GENDER OF THE DOM
Because of IRL systemic objectification, lots of women, even queer, tend to be squicked as fuck with depictions of bottomy women, and it goes extra with "every girl deep down wants to sub to a big strong man (almost always a man) no matter how much she says she's a dom" talk
I can't say much about trans men, women and nonbinary people, but from what I've seen, they're all thrust (TEEHEE) into the permabottom role too
And well, I'm sure there's a lot of people who are bottomy/subby and identify with the equivalent character, it's a fact.
But the rhetoric of (cishet, maybe bi/pan) women identifying with the bottom in erotic work to sublimate sexual guilt lokks a lil dated to me
But the rhetoric of (cishet, maybe bi/pan) women identifying with the bottom in erotic work to sublimate sexual guilt lokks a lil dated to me
It's 2019, not 1999; women who are into it in fandom will get into readerfic, non-femdom f/m (while not the equivalent of het femsub, tends to have femsub elements because we live on a society), f/f who lingers on the bottom and they're happy with it, there's much less stigma.
But subby women who are attracted to men get it made on mainstream media; even romance novels are way less shy of putting kink on page. They do not need a proxy like an effeminate male bottom anymore; those today who like fem male bottoms... LIKE FEM MALE BOTTOMS, it's not deep.
I guess that's what they mean about even if the work is not heteronormative, the "assumption of the Fantasy / the nature of the Fantasy" is.
