wankgate | 252: imagine all the tags sitting neglected in inboxes for this

"[...] romantic relationships involve emotions so different they might as well be between different species, if the relationship is m/m vs m/f vs f/f."

it's not about emotions being different

is about not wanting to rp that sort of dynamic between a man and a woman

it's the m/f part because they're gay thus fed up of straight stuff not that they think men are from mars and women are from venus

So OP can just say "Open to m/m for shipping" like 95% of dwrp instead of being a weirdo about tying their own sexuality to it.

you sound straight

no homo

That was why it all sounded so strange to me. Everyone just puts m/m for characters that are 100% straight in canon. Tying it to their sexuality is why most think this is a sex thing.

if you think there's no correlation between the popularity of m/m on this site and the fact that most dwrpers are straight or bi women, you're an idiot

it's not the only factor but it's totally a factor, and pretending it isn't is delulu.

it's cracking me up everyone getting mad at this dude for 'tying' his desire to rp m/m only to his sexuality yet this is the land of m/m because over 3/4ths of the playerbase are women.

like come on some self-awareness please.

heteronormativity is boring anyway

eh i don't think you can rule out the fact that statistically most canons have more male characters than female characters so there's a higher probability of people picking male characters to play.

like I'm down for m/f with most of my characters but in practice i wind up playing m/m probably 90% of the time just because that's what most of my options are.

bs

stop playing exclusively from shonen manga or the mcu. plenty of canons have more female characters. but those characters dont have the dicks that dwrpers want to ride

i don't want to play from trash neckbead anime sorry

you caught me, that's the third thing in the world.

i don't play from either one of those things actually, but carry on.

i will never understand why dwrpers bitch about this and then refuse to actually do anything about it

'someone who is not me should DEFINITELY play from different canons so we get more characters i personally want to smash my barbies against'

it sounds like you actually do understand it

but also wg loves a self-fulfilling prophecy

On average there's a 3 to 1 ratio of male characters to female characters in almost everything mainstream. The bechdel test is a standard so low it's a trip hazard and most things still fail to pass it.

That's what it is. It's not rocket science.

It is a factor but it's not the only factor

another factor is the fact most people here are attracted to men

whether they want to write about fucking them or not doesn't matter

more attracted to something > more likely to pay attention to it > more likely to get a voice for it > more likely to rp them > more likely to want to write them smut or not

and on and on it goes

"most people here are attracted to men" literally my entire plurk list is queer ppl who are not into men, but play m/m. so idk who u hanging out with from dreamwidth

your plurk list ≠ this hobby as a whole

come on son

Also, I'm a lesbian who plays m/m. I play it because it's a way to reliably get play and I like RP - it's like wanting cake but the only cake available has no frosting. I'd rather have frosting (play f/f) but nobody else likes frosting so I eat cake without it because I still like cake. I've tried to play m/f but really hated the gendered dynamics my partners almost always brought in, and limiting myself to f/f would result in next to no tags and people assuming I'm a neckbeard/making weird passive aggressive comments.

My muses are about equally split between men and women, but I play the men way more because that's who everybody here is interested in tagging.

I play m/m to fit in, basically, but I'd never say that un-anon because people would be weird about it.

I'm also curious based on the anon's phrasing: Are these people mostly lesbians or are they asexual? Queer people who aren't attracted to men could mean either, and heteroromantic/biromantic ace women are still going to be more interested in men, whereas aroace people are going to have no preference and m/m presents the most options.