Okay, about this “g*ncest” thing that just cropped up which makes me feel like I splintered back to the year 2006 and aren’t we over this by now…what that is is a bona fide example of toxic masculinity attitudes at work and being valorized by a small number of fans, mostly female.
Adding onto this, because I apparently missed a whole extra limb of this that’s actually patronizing and devaluing genfic. The g*ncest enthusiasts think the -cest has to be tacked on otherwise it won’t be emotionally intense enough and this is why the term was created and g*ncest is just gen but emotionally intense enough and what the hell did I just read
i mean that’s why the person that told me that it wasn’t for me said it wasn’t for me. because it’s slash but they don’t want to say it is. like you said, they want to have their slash cake and eat it too. that’s not how this works. it’s either slash or it isn’t.
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