Because black people might have tried to get in, duh.

Do we really want to apply the word "tragic" to this situation? Several years ago a family got lost in a snowstom, and the husband tried to hike out to get help, and he froze to death, and it turned out they were only a couple miles from where they needed to be. That was tragic.

i.e. that combat vet husband described in detail some the hand-to-hand techniques he learned on deployment, and also casually mentioned that he knows a lot of guys with unresolved anger issues who also happen to be off the leash, so I decided to stop calling his wife a slut.

RPF is definitely odd, although I mentioned elsewhere that I used to do it with my girlfriends talking about Duran Duran (although not 'shipping them together, mostly stories about their various girlfriends and the dramas of touring life) and my aunt said she and *her* girlfriends did it with the Beatles, in the 60s. …

I don't think what you're talking about is an artifact of slashfic though, its a weird manifestation of obsessive fandom of *any* stripe. Look at what is happening to FKA Twigs, Robert Pattinson's new girlfriend. She's under attack from absolute headcases who have completely lost their shit that he's no longer with…

All fictional characters are "dolls" upon which we can project our fantasies. That is the foundation of fanfic — bending the canonical story to suit our narrative desires. Don't like it? Don't read it.

I don't know who the writers are on daytime soaps, but I do know that the creator of How To Get Away with Murder — which has the most explicit portrayal of a gay man on popular TV right now — is a gay man himself. Take it up with him, my friend. My point there was that someone, somewhere, has figured out that…

Are you one of those people who thinks poor people aren't truly poor because they have refrigerators?

*Most* 'shippers are straight women, and its not a problem that they're bending the canon to suit their narrative desires. That's what fanfic is all about. If I think that Mulder and Kryceck are a far more compelling couple than Mulder and Scully, that's what I'm going to write about. If I think Krycek and Skinner…

You are not entitled to tell other people what they may or may not find erotic or emotionally compelling.

Oh well? You're not the audience, its not meant for you. Hell, there's a shit ton of "blonde" porn out there, and a shit-ton of "nerdy girl with glasses" porn too, just do a quick glance on PornHub. I guess it could make me uncomfortable because "it doesn't represent me" but despite the fact that I am a blond in…

Slashfic isn't meant to represent their experience. Its a genre unto itself with its own tropes and common themes.

Regardless of what you think of the Catholic church — she's not a Catholic priest. She's not a Catholic priest until and unless the Catholic hierarchy recognizes her as such. She was not ordained in the Catholic church, therefore she is not a Catholic priest. This isn't hard to understand.

Or if the sex is really hot.

Sexual fantasy =/= reality, thank goodness. I have some really odd kinks that exist only in my own head and under a pseudonym. I'm not excusing anyone being an asshole IRL for no good reason, but it is absolutely possible to find people & situations highly erotic in your imagination that you would find unpleasant …

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Or maybe — JUST MAYBE — women actually find the idea of two men in sexual congress highly erotic and want to read about it and see it.

Heaven forfend women actually know what turns them on. You must be right, we're all just sublimating our actual desires (which you understand, and we don't) and channeling them into…

Her family probably identifies as Cape Verdian, not black. All the Cape Verdean people in my area are explicit about being "Cape Verdean"

Baohaus is my mistress when I'm in NYC. I'm heading there in April for one night, to catch a concert, and I'm already fantasizing about the bao that I'm going to cram into my mouth when I'm there.

I'd been thinking that myself, "Well THIS will get the momentum for the border-fence off the ground for sure!" We'd also have to do some kind of airlift and resettlement program for all the progressive or even moderate minded people who would get caught up in it.