I've seen it a lot of times, though. In all honesty, I could probably accept it if they were ALSO pairing the girl up with someone they thought was better for her. It's just that, almost every time I've seen that argument("I do this fanon ship because I think she deserves better than this canon ship") it's used to explain slash(and not f/f) which is where the logic comes to a screeching halt. If the reason for a fanon ship is that you don't think the canon ship is good enough for a character, so you ship one with someone else, the logical conclusion is shipping the one you feel is slighted. But the fact that it's almost always that she deserves better so he gets shipped just seems to enforce the idea that it's the guy who's the most important, and therefore, the one who should be paired off.
It's like how I've been seeing the argument lately that that part of why people slash is that every female in fiction is a love interest, and a lot of guys get left out, so you have to break up a canon pairing to slash. Ignoring the fact that nowhere near every female is paired off, the only way the rest would hold water is if there were only exactly 2 males and 1 female in the work of fiction. Pretty much everything has various unpaired males and females, the fact that it seems to gravitate towards slashing the main(usually paired) male just seems to indicate that you think your favorite HAS to be with the main male to be important or something.
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Date: 2008-06-18 03:32 pm (UTC)It's like how I've been seeing the argument lately that that part of why people slash is that every female in fiction is a love interest, and a lot of guys get left out, so you have to break up a canon pairing to slash. Ignoring the fact that nowhere near every female is paired off, the only way the rest would hold water is if there were only exactly 2 males and 1 female in the work of fiction. Pretty much everything has various unpaired males and females, the fact that it seems to gravitate towards slashing the main(usually paired) male just seems to indicate that you think your favorite HAS to be with the main male to be important or something.