I totally see where you're coming from. The only reason I'm able to have as many favorite het pairings as I do is because I completely reinvent the female counterpart in my imagination. If it were based on the story alone, I probably couldn't do it.
I hate that with female characters. It's as if they have to fit one of two stereotypes... the tough bitch or the damsel in distress. The aggressor or the victim. The perfect, angelic ideal or the Jezebel. Most movies/TV shows/books completely ignore the fact that most of us females are way too complex for that. Most of us are definitely in the gray area somewhere in between, with qualities all over the spectrum. I'd love to see more female characters written that way. Realistic, three-dimensional people. Not just plot points for the male characters to bounce off of.
Slash porn can be intensely hot, I agree. With the right character or even the right fic with one I would've never imagined that way, I can totally get into it. :)
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I hate that with female characters. It's as if they have to fit one of two stereotypes... the tough bitch or the damsel in distress. The aggressor or the victim. The perfect, angelic ideal or the Jezebel.
Most movies/TV shows/books completely ignore the fact that most of us females are way too complex for that. Most of us are definitely in the gray area somewhere in between, with qualities all over the spectrum. I'd love to see more female characters written that way. Realistic, three-dimensional people. Not just plot points for the male characters to bounce off of.
Slash porn can be intensely hot, I agree. With the right character or even the right fic with one I would've never imagined that way, I can totally get into it. :)