I'm not even trying to dodge wank on this one

[gryphonsegg]

I am so sick of seeing "omegaverse" or "A/B/O" fic for every single fandom, it's not even funny anymore. There's so much to hate: the complete failure at biology for all time and eternity, the breath-taking level of misogyny built into the very foundations of the world, the insistence on assembling all the worst romance tropes ever and turning them all up so far it should have blown a fuse in everybody's brain by now, and the infiltration of every fandom no matter how wildly inappropriate. It's like somebody said, "Wow, I love Pern for the old school sexism, the weird homophobia, and the romanticizing of rape and deeply gendered class oppression, but those boring dragons keep getting in the way." Then that thought somehow became encoded in a virus, which then swept through all the fandoms and not even Madagascar had time to close its port.

Comments

[hannah]

Thank you. Thank you. There's so much that's wrong about the whole thing, but it's like everyone refuses to acknowledge it. And not even the sort of "this is just me getting my rocks off"-type situation where it's people getting their rocks off - this is people seriously investing in these scenarios that are inherently problematic on so many levels that go way too far beyond that initial level of kink. It's so terrible. Can I bake you a cake in thanks for voicing this at last?

[gryphonsegg]

No cake is necessary-- I'm just happy to find another person who find this trend terrible. Objecting to omegaverse fic is often frowned upon because saying "Hey, this entire concept is made out of misogyny and homophobia and rape culture" is considered kink-shaming.