214 50/50 Tropes

[mklutz]

Double up on your popcorn this week folks, because MK, Pru, and The Hoyden take a journey of terrible discovery in the depths of your favorite (and least favorite) fanfic tropes. We cover everything from soulbonding to soulbonding with a mind meld, and detour in the land of magical ass babies and high school AUs along the way. If that sounds like your cup of tea, or perhaps you are just a keen fan of listening to auditory train wrecks, crank up the volume and settle in, because /report is always happy to serve.

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Comments

Re: Far too many words about boypussies.

[luciazephyr]

I actually just went to a con.txt panel that had the best explanation for this kink, and I'd like to propose it as an alternative. It's really fascinating.

The panel mod pointed out that fact that in many ways Glee is a young fandom. Its writers seem to skew younger than in other fandoms. So you have a lot of young girls writing about Kurt's boy-pussy. But it's not about the trans* thing or the gender thing often.

Such fics have Kurt being ashamed or embarrassed by his body, but having another person being comforting and understanding. It's a way of coming to accept ones own genitalia.

Go back to the fact that we're talking about the vagina. And I can only speak for cisfemale people, but young girls are taught nothing about their own bodies, to the point they don't seem to belong to them in a way young boys and their penii don't have to deal with.

So. You have a lot of cisfemale girls writing about a character who doesn't understand their own genitalia but slowly coming to acceptance with some help from a loved on, and learning about one's own body.

Sound familiar?

Anyway. Just an alternate theory.

Re: Far too many words about boypussies.

[rageprufrock]

Oh! This is really interesting, and reads to me like a totally viable possibility. Plus, I think that slash has always had a bit of that role for women, so it makes sense younger women would be working out their hello-wtf-are-yous with their vaginas in this way.