#this sadly applies to so many fandoms. but it’s so prevalent in Star Wars shipping communities

[samaspic31]

It always baffles me how much people believe that their ideas about gay sex and shipping come from nowhere when it's clearly just thinly veiled homophobic and sexist stereotypes that fem=bottom=submissive we’re all unconsciously taught growing up in homophobic societies (with racist undertones anytime half of a ship is not white). i believe it to be unconcsious bias, im not blaming people for not having unpacked why they jump to headcanon the character performing the most traditional masculinity to be a top, but it’s getting tiring. Especially when authors refuse to question themselves when getting callled out for fetichizing, say, latino men and reducing them to sex-obsessed, domineering, possessive, bordeline abusive partners. I promise you your tendency to make the more traditionally masculine one a top with a dominant attitude does not come from yourself entirely. It’s not something you just “happen” to consistently repeat your work for no subjacent reason. You have every right to hold these headcanons, and to like exploring these dynamics, i sometimes even agree with those interpretations myself ! But we all should be careful and conscious of the why, what pushed us to hold these headcanons, and check it’s not rooted in shallow gendered and racialized stereotypes.

Anyways

#this sadly applies to so many fandoms. but it’s so prevalent in Star Wars shipping communities #sam posts stuff #begging y’all to talk to actual gay men and learn about queer femininity and how detached from submissiveness it can be #if I have to read one more fic that treats the fact the feminine half of a ship is the bottom as obvious I’m throwing myself off a cliff #fuck it #dinluke #that is also rife in xreader writing communities but im not tagging that