Ranty McRant
Aug. 24th, 2012 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16Yes, John Watson will probably get married. He was married in the Doyle canon NUMEROUS times! He was married in the RDJ sequel and did that sequel have any less homoeroticness than the first?
IT HAD WAY MORE!
But no, everyone is acting like it's the end of the world and I'm kind of pissed because..
Haven't we established that if you don't like canon, you should just ignore it and do your own thing? Like all the fic where Ianto, Phil, Wesley, Wash and other are happily alive and well?
Now, if John were marrying a man, would this get this much backlash?
Yes, it probably would but why do we ignore canon m/f relationships?
We get good, well-written women like Pepper and we still ship Tony with Steve. Thor gets a rocket science girlfriend who's too smart for Nick Fury to trust with Phase 2 so what do we do? We ship him with his brother.
Why are we marginalizing women when in the same breath, we complain how there aren't enough of them?
It's kind of self-defeating and infantile, isn't it?
(sighs)
IT HAD WAY MORE!
But no, everyone is acting like it's the end of the world and I'm kind of pissed because..
Haven't we established that if you don't like canon, you should just ignore it and do your own thing? Like all the fic where Ianto, Phil, Wesley, Wash and other are happily alive and well?
Now, if John were marrying a man, would this get this much backlash?
Yes, it probably would but why do we ignore canon m/f relationships?
We get good, well-written women like Pepper and we still ship Tony with Steve. Thor gets a rocket science girlfriend who's too smart for Nick Fury to trust with Phase 2 so what do we do? We ship him with his brother.
Why are we marginalizing women when in the same breath, we complain how there aren't enough of them?
It's kind of self-defeating and infantile, isn't it?
(sighs)
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Date: 2012-08-24 08:25 pm (UTC)I'm not for marginalizing women but, negl, I do not read or ship het in fandom. I may accept certain pairing as canon but I don't ship them. In fact, I dislike het with a passion. If there's another male, I will slash the hell out of any possible male/male pairing even if it require incredible feats of (ill)logic to do so. lol
That's just how my mind works. I watched Avengers and automatically slashed Tony/Loki, despite the fact that I love Pepper (although dislike Gwynyth Paltrow in general).
That said, I dislike Jane because she is boring as hell, tbh. I think Natalie Portman was the wrong casting choice and I wish the role had been recast for Thor 2 but I've no problem at all with the character and Thor as a couple, in theory. I ship Frostiron anyway, not Thorki.
I'm sort of off-topic but there are many reasons why some of us reject m/f ships and it's not just because we dislike the female characters on principle.