Show a Western fan a Japanese SupermanxBatman doujinshi and they'll boggle with horror at uke!Batman.
Really? I obviously need to read more slash outside HP, I'd always gotten the impression that absolute insistence on the preservation of these sexual roles was more a yaoi fandom than a slash fandom thing. Or would the bogggling be more about Batman being given a uke personality (with lots of blushing and "iya, dame")?
Western fans are a lot more likely to kick and scream early and loud if they see one of the characters regularly assigned the "female role"
Perhaps because involvement in slash fandom is more political on the English-language net than in Japanese fandom, people are quicker to insist that slash relationships shouldn't portray weird stereotypes about 'real' gay males?
Is there a lot of SupermanXBatman in Japan? It's interesting to see which non-Japanese fandoms get the dojinshi treatment. HP and LotR got pretty huge, but other non-Japanese fandoms seem downright tiny in the dojinshi world.
EDIT: gah, forgot to address the HarryXSnape dynamics. I seem to be confusing myself more than you with all the comment threads. Looking at the dojinshi data set a bit more closely, it looks as if at first glance, at least six out of the ten HarryXSnape djs were either created by a circle best known for JamesXSnape stuff (prt) or involve some past relationship with James. Perhaps Snape really had been coded as uke so thoroughly by the time Snape/Harry became popular that this encoding managed to override him being the older, larger man, and Harry's social superior?
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Really? I obviously need to read more slash outside HP, I'd always gotten the impression that absolute insistence on the preservation of these sexual roles was more a yaoi fandom than a slash fandom thing. Or would the bogggling be more about Batman being given a uke personality (with lots of blushing and "iya, dame")?
Western fans are a lot more likely to kick and scream early and loud if they see one of the characters regularly assigned the "female role"
Perhaps because involvement in slash fandom is more political on the English-language net than in Japanese fandom, people are quicker to insist that slash relationships shouldn't portray weird stereotypes about 'real' gay males?
Is there a lot of SupermanXBatman in Japan? It's interesting to see which non-Japanese fandoms get the dojinshi treatment. HP and LotR got pretty huge, but other non-Japanese fandoms seem downright tiny in the dojinshi world.
EDIT: gah, forgot to address the HarryXSnape dynamics. I seem to be confusing myself more than you with all the comment threads. Looking at the dojinshi data set a bit more closely, it looks as if at first glance, at least six out of the ten HarryXSnape djs were either created by a circle best known for JamesXSnape stuff (prt) or involve some past relationship with James. Perhaps Snape really had been coded as uke so thoroughly by the time Snape/Harry became popular that this encoding managed to override him being the older, larger man, and Harry's social superior?