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")?
In this case the latter--not so much that there's a rigid assumption that Superman can't be seme but because seeing Batman blushing and welling up with tears is particularly out of character for him. Superman's the more demonstrative and emotional of the two, so I think many people wouldn't recoil quite so hard from the traditional uke treatment in his case (although it would still be quite odd!)
SupermanxBatman is a very niche pairing in Japan--it doesn't get much play simply because it's darn hard to get comic books; the manga industry renders them superfluous and a bit silly. On the other hand, because the characters are so iconic you don't really need to have read any comic books to "get" it, so it crops up here and there.
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?
Interesting. Is it possible that people who are fundamentally JamesxSnape fans are using HarryxSnape as a sort of..."James II?" There's a lot of love for fated lovers replaying roles in different generations, so maybe people see Snape as so struck by Harry's resemblance to his father that he intuitively falls into his traditional role there?
Hee, now I'm curious if Snape/Draco fans also code Snape uke...although if they do it may well be because there's a fair amount of Lucius/Snape and then Draco once again steps in for his father...poor Snape, haunted by the sons of men who made his life hell...
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:21 am (UTC)In this case the latter--not so much that there's a rigid assumption that Superman can't be seme but because seeing Batman blushing and welling up with tears is particularly out of character for him. Superman's the more demonstrative and emotional of the two, so I think many people wouldn't recoil quite so hard from the traditional uke treatment in his case (although it would still be quite odd!)
SupermanxBatman is a very niche pairing in Japan--it doesn't get much play simply because it's darn hard to get comic books; the manga industry renders them superfluous and a bit silly. On the other hand, because the characters are so iconic you don't really need to have read any comic books to "get" it, so it crops up here and there.
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?
Interesting. Is it possible that people who are fundamentally JamesxSnape fans are using HarryxSnape as a sort of..."James II?" There's a lot of love for fated lovers replaying roles in different generations, so maybe people see Snape as so struck by Harry's resemblance to his father that he intuitively falls into his traditional role there?
Hee, now I'm curious if Snape/Draco fans also code Snape uke...although if they do it may well be because there's a fair amount of Lucius/Snape and then Draco once again steps in for his father...poor Snape, haunted by the sons of men who made his life hell...