Heterosexual Female Slash Fans
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| Title: | Heterosexual Female Slash Fans |
| Creator: | centrumlumina (Lulu) |
| Date(s): | October 4, 2013 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | The Slow Dance of the Infinite Stars: Heterosexual Female Slash Fans, Archived version |
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Heterosexual Female Slash Fans is a post, part of analysis by centrumlumina of the AO3 Census Survey conducted in September, 2013.
Also see: AO3 Census: Masterpost.
Some Topics Discussed
- sexual and gender identification and fans
- slash and femmeslash
- previous assumptions about fan's sexual preferences
Introduction
We’ve all heard it said - “Of course M/M shipping is more popular than anything else! Most fans are women, most women are straight, therefore they want to write about hot guys together! What do you expect?”However, among the 10,005 respondents to the AO3 census survey, the proportion of M/M fans who consider themselves both heterosexual and female is between 25% and 36% (depending on how precisely the terms are defined). Respondents in that demographic were less likely than average to be fans of M/M. Of course, this data has its limitations, but these results are supported by many past surveys.
Evidence suggests that it is worth questioning the assumption that all or most M/M fans are heterosexual women.
If this assumption is false, continuously attributing the abundance of M/M slash to heterosexual women is misleading, and erases a large group of slash fans who ID as non-heterosexual and/or non-female.
More info/methodology under the cut.