Of the bi/gay guys I know in RL who I talk to about fannish stuff, one's reaction was "what the hell is wrong with women?" when his girlfriend and I got him into manga(granted, I think he only visited one or two websites and just googled "manga") one thinks it's absolutely hilarious, but not in intended ways, and the other just...hates it. As in "I don't want to really find out why" hates. I think it has to do with the unrealistic part and the RL "you're so gay" stereotyping. (That said, he likes Petshop of Horrors, which is also one of the few slash-pairing centric things I like, so I gather he doesn't hate the whole idea, just the general execution/fandom part, maybe...like I said, he feels too strongly about it for me to really want to ask.) I do, though, know a couple straight guys(one online, one in RL) who have been told that they're gay but in denial by slash fans.
I haven't seen the "Empowered" thing. S_D gets so much posted to it that I miss a lot of it.
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Date: 2008-05-01 04:03 am (UTC)I haven't seen the "Empowered" thing. S_D gets so much posted to it that I miss a lot of it.