"This discussion is about some people's aversion to the mingling of male and female genitalia." As an audience reaction, it's about people with an aversion to fiction involving the mingling of male and female genitalia. Most of these people have no objection to IRL het. This attitude is in fact sometimes an expression of homophobia, which the page already explains. They may express this by writing a character that says that het is ew, but this doesn't mean it the author thinks so. This is mostly a fanfic thing, where the audience/creator line is blurred. We could just as easily call it a creator trope as an audience one.
"We could just as easily call it a creator trope as an audience one."
It is neither. Audience reactions are not tropes. Tropes are storytelling conventions; devices used to convey meaning.
v Way less relevant than "what is this?"
edited 23rd May '12 8:39:28 PM by rodneyAnonymous
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It's tangentially about that aversion, which was offered as possible rationale for this page existing. Thus, the conjoining of hot dogs and hallways is, indeed, relevant to this discussion.
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x3 That's full of falsehoods. Anyways this is an audience reaction, but even worse than other of our audience reaction articles. We should focus on this one for now, I agree, I just wanted to say that the fact that we have other articles on audience reactions doesn't mean that this one is worth keeping (as an answer to this post
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edited 23rd May '12 8:41:55 PM by Anfauglith
Instead, I have learned a horrible truth of existence...some stories have no meaning.
We track fan fiction. Audience reactions are a major influence on fan fiction. In fact, if you want to redefine this as having characters in slash fictions express heterophobic sentiments which would not fit how they are written in canon, I'd be all for it. That would also be a bona fide trope and you wouldn't need to change much about the description.
No it wouldn't. Expressing sentiments is not a trope. If it were like "wearing blue polka dot shirts means het is ew" maybe.
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@55 Anfauglith: "That's full of falsehoods."
Huh? #52 is about right. Most writers/readers I've met who think Het Is Ew are in fact straight.
Het Is Ew is an attitude found among some fanfic writers/readers which drives some of the tropes associated with fanfic. It's not itself a trope, but it's a causative principle, on the same order as Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls or Most Fanfic Writers Are Fans.
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This is totally a legitimate Audience Reaction, in my opinion. I am however rather surprised to find it doesn't already have a YMMV banner on it.
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This is the kind of situation where I would imagine the inbounds are used to explain exactly this concept. Cutting and redirecting elsewhere sounds just as unhelpful as cutting entirely, so I fail to see why a cut, or even a severe redefinition, is an option.
Why is this bugging people so much? I don't read fanfiction, but this strikes me as vaguely useful, not heinously against the purpose of the wiki.
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Seconding that. It is definitely a trope in fanfic communities.
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I thought it was about whether it's a trope, audience reacion or fanspeak.