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[–]DifferentAirGC 66 insightful - 7 fun66 insightful - 6 fun67 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

This is actually a pretty common lesbian experience.

Then there’s also the fact that many lesbians enjoy shipping gay couples and/or watching gay porn.

Uh, no. And if the woman finds gay male porn hot, she is not a lesbian.

[–][deleted] 32 insightful - 2 fun32 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't think it's weird if a lesbian sees gay couples on TV and thinks it's cute or romantic. Shipping isn't an inherently sexual activity, it just means you think two characters are good together. I only really care about lesbians in media so I actively seek out shows and books with female romance in my free time. But if I run into fanart of two guys in love and it doesn't look fetishy, I think it's sweet.

Watching gay porn though? Nope. Sorry. No way. I tried watching gay porn once and couldn't stomach it. I remember being a tween and all my bi and straight friends were super into yaoi. I had to mentally check out every time the conversation went in that direction. I instantly side-eye any woman claiming she's a lesbian that is obsessed with gay porn/yaoi/BL/nsfw mlm ships/whatever they call it.

EDIT: The amount of women in the comments claiming lesbians like gay porn... Are y'all lost?

[–]just_lesbian_things 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Shipping isn't an inherently sexual activity, it just means you think two characters are good together.

I see it as a sport. You know, some people have a favorite sports team, they get the jersey and merchandise, talk about the games "their" team plays, get very invested with "their" team's performance, occasionally get too upset when "their" team loses. That's shipping for me. It's about as silly a pastime as watching football or soccer.

[–][deleted] 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're right. Just like with sports you have your casual fans, your fanatics, and then those people somewhere in between. It's funny when fans get super invested in ships because it usually boils down to internet slapfights. It's normal to want this character to get with that character and be disappointed when writers make a choice you think is dumb, but when I see people having mental breakdowns over their ship not becoming canon it's like, maybe you should take a break lol. Remember when #TeamEdward versus #TeamJacob was so huge it got talked about on the news?