I agree that "woobie" has to do with the transgression of masculine gender roles
That sentence encapsulates what I like about this sort of aca-leaning fannishness.
But then why do so many of us (myself included) enjoy and eroticize that kind of passive suffering in men?
For the same reason, or related reasons, that lots of people like BDSM porn, I guess. Though woobieness isn't just passive suffering, it's got that hurt/comfort aspect to it - to contrast it with, say, non-con & snuff-fic. Overall, I think there are related reasons between the different ways the fen make male characters suffer as they slash them, but I'm not sure if it's more accurate to think of those ways as being on a spectrum or in different categories.
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That sentence encapsulates what I like about this sort of aca-leaning fannishness.
But then why do so many of us (myself included) enjoy and eroticize that kind of passive suffering in men?
For the same reason, or related reasons, that lots of people like BDSM porn, I guess. Though woobieness isn't just passive suffering, it's got that hurt/comfort aspect to it - to contrast it with, say, non-con & snuff-fic. Overall, I think there are related reasons between the different ways the fen make male characters suffer as they slash them, but I'm not sure if it's more accurate to think of those ways as being on a spectrum or in different categories.