First off, thank you very much for saying up front it's a Sam/Dean vid; people don't always mention this.
I hesitated a lot before commenting on this, but since it really upset me:
Pairing: Sam/Dean (you could read it as gen, but why would you want to?)
One of the reasons I backed away from SPN fandom even when I was still watching the show was the pervasiveness of Wincest, to the point that it was assumed that if you were a slash fan, of course you were into Wincest, and most people seemed to think nothing of it. Hell, when I started watching, I thought I would be into Wincest for the long haul. Only, over time it started to really bother, and then completely squick me.
At this point, I find it really upsetting (and still unavoidable, if only in passing mention), and to have it casually implied that my perspective is so unthinkable that I shouldn't even want to not conceive of brothers fucking is distressing.
If I were primarily a gen fan, I think I'd find it even more dismissive and insulting. Can you imagine the reaction if someone put a vid or story out there with the tag: "Gen. you could read it as Sam/Dean, but why would you want to?"
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Date: 2010-06-10 07:04 pm (UTC)I hesitated a lot before commenting on this, but since it really upset me:
Pairing: Sam/Dean (you could read it as gen, but why would you want to?)
One of the reasons I backed away from SPN fandom even when I was still watching the show was the pervasiveness of Wincest, to the point that it was assumed that if you were a slash fan, of course you were into Wincest, and most people seemed to think nothing of it. Hell, when I started watching, I thought I would be into Wincest for the long haul. Only, over time it started to really bother, and then completely squick me.
At this point, I find it really upsetting (and still unavoidable, if only in passing mention), and to have it casually implied that my perspective is so unthinkable that I shouldn't even want to not conceive of brothers fucking is distressing.
If I were primarily a gen fan, I think I'd find it even more dismissive and insulting. Can you imagine the reaction if someone put a vid or story out there with the tag: "Gen. you could read it as Sam/Dean, but why would you want to?"