I think fandom has taken this weird turn in terms of "canon" in that anything not "canon" is unacceptable and canon is made to serve MY (as in, the viewer's) needs, and that no creativity is needed on MY, part, and in fact creativity on MY part is undesirable. I could probably say something about how creativity is feminized in fandom versus trivia, but there's a bigger point here.
Large studios have less ick about showing explicitly f/f relationships on-screen than explicitly gay ones, especially when aimed at younger audiences. The self-serving logic of these fans is then if f/f couples are explicitly shown on screen, that means homophobia isn't the reason for these m/m relationships to not be on screen, they're not on screen because they don't exist in this story and if they don't exist in this story fandom shouldn't have them and therefore we're going to harass anyone who keeps churning out non-canonical fandom materials.
The lack of explicit gay canonical relationships in a lot of fandoms between major characters when f/f relationships are allowed has effectively created a radfem world where men are incapable of love without it being facilitated by a woman, and even if then, and fans aggressively endorsing this worldview.
A lot of what I'm talking about is what I've observed in the Arcane fandom, though this seems like it's happening everywhere. I've found the JayVik fujos are thriving in certain segments but these segments are really, really sequestered off from the main fandom in a way that's kind of disturbing, considering.
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Date: 27/4/25 16:05 (UTC)Large studios have less ick about showing explicitly f/f relationships on-screen than explicitly gay ones, especially when aimed at younger audiences. The self-serving logic of these fans is then if f/f couples are explicitly shown on screen, that means homophobia isn't the reason for these m/m relationships to not be on screen, they're not on screen because they don't exist in this story and if they don't exist in this story fandom shouldn't have them and therefore we're going to harass anyone who keeps churning out non-canonical fandom materials.
The lack of explicit gay canonical relationships in a lot of fandoms between major characters when f/f relationships are allowed has effectively created a radfem world where men are incapable of love without it being facilitated by a woman, and even if then, and fans aggressively endorsing this worldview.
A lot of what I'm talking about is what I've observed in the Arcane fandom, though this seems like it's happening everywhere. I've found the JayVik fujos are thriving in certain segments but these segments are really, really sequestered off from the main fandom in a way that's kind of disturbing, considering.