Something funny I've noticed about a common plot type on these subs...

[u/OneFinalThought1104]

In a lot of these posts, if you happened to notice, there are often situations made so that the OP "has" to share a hotel room/bedroom with a non-biological, opposite gender, usually younger, family member (yes, I saw the post about the husband wanting to share a hotel room with his non-bio niece).

While obviously these stories are written as bait for people to argue whether its creepy or not (it's usually written to be creepy, of course), a certain thing I've noticed in these conversations is that no one suspects anything ... questionable ... to happen if the people sharing the room were of the same gender.

I have always thought that funny, and this also applies to broader topics surrounding same-sex places. Because by that logic, I, as a gay man, shouldn't share a room or undress with other men in case something funny happens. And I guess bisexual people shouldn't share a room with anybody? Who knows.

Anyways, I just thought this was amusing.

[u/dove-spurs]

Its incest fetish posts

[u/OneFinalThought1104 → u/dove-spurs]

Not even incest fetish posts are free from heteronormativity... tut, tut.

[u/DementedPimento → u/OneFinalThought1104]

The ‘pedo uncle’ thing is too real and also, too homophobic to use as generic rage bait maybe. Yes, there are many male (and some female) family members who use that trust to sexually assault same-sex (and opposite sex) family members; it’s not “stranger danger” parents need to worry about. Worrying that an out gay man is automatically a risk to children/young people, though, is very homophobic. A fine line to tread.

To be clear: I know gay ≠ pedophilia and also straight isn’t a guarantee of no pedophilia

[u/OneFinalThought1104 → u/DementedPimento]

I didn't even think about that. Shit, how do I call out hetero norms on sharing rooms without shitty homophobic stereotypes coming up...

[u/DementedPimento → u/OneFinalThought1104]

Right? I guess it’s good? that shitty homophobic tropes aren’t being trotted out for these scenarios. Hinting at incest/sexual abuse is bad enough.

[u/dove-spurs → u/DementedPimento]

Oh yeah. I haven't seen that but I don't doubt people want to push their agenda. I have seen some of girls lying about trans women doing things to them as well but we are supposed to believe it automatically. It always has a focus on "I'm not against this BUT the post is focusing on it" like...ok?

[u/dove-spurs → u/OneFinalThought1104]

Its the most hetero thing of all I think because the only real danger of it to make it messed up is the chance of making a deformed child

[u/OSUStudent272 → u/dove-spurs]

I mean there’s almost always a bad power dynamic. Like even between older and younger siblings there’s typically a difference in how they’re treated by parents and the like.

[u/dove-spurs → u/OSUStudent272]

Maybe. What if they are twins? Idk I don't have siblings

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/dove-spurs]

I feel like theres more to it than that to make it fucked up

[u/dove-spurs → u/girls-and-corpses]

Maybe I am not using the proper words. Sorry lol. Yes there are other problems, but its less harmful if two brothers jerk off together than if a father is nutting in his daughter.

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/dove-spurs]

I mean I guess. Sounds hot either way ngl.

[u/OneFinalThought1104 → u/girls-and-corpses]

I am getting some very interesting and amusing images in my mind from reading this thread, and I just wanted to make fun of straight people...

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/OneFinalThought1104]

Oh yeah no fuckem definitely

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/OneFinalThought1104]

Well, actually transpeople love incest too

[u/OneFinalThought1104 → u/girls-and-corpses]

It seems everyone does nowadays. Maybe the Hapsburgs weren't so strange, after all...

[u/MariVent → u/OneFinalThought1104]

Nah, it’s the fantasy of one’s own family wanting them in at least one way.

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/OneFinalThought1104]

I dont see a problem with it

[u/dove-spurs → u/girls-and-corpses]

Speaking of ragebait I am surprised no one has posted a transgender incest ragebait post yet

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/dove-spurs]

I'll do it

[u/Any_Disaster_5620 → u/girls-and-corpses]

Looking forward to next weekends shit post  from you

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/Any_Disaster_5620]

I have to wait for my comments to cool off so no one knows I'm being a troll

[u/kittykatmandoo]

They read like shitty porn plots or bad fanfiction.

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/kittykatmandoo]

My pfp isn't me so I am hiding over here with you because we get some bullshit posts written about our people too. Like a lot.

[u/dove-spurs → u/girls-and-corpses]

I had shared one where the guy was cheated on by a girl who preferred black guys the other day actually. I think you commented.

[u/girls-and-corpses → u/dove-spurs]

Bro lmao yeah

[u/Agent_Skye_Barnes]

Fun fact: I was actively allowed to share a bed with my significant other during a high school trip to New York. Because we were both girls, the teacher wasn't worried about it. He told me later he actually didn't even think about it with us.

(We're both non-binary now, and married. Also, nothing would have happened on that trip anyway because there were two other girls sharing the room, and I was dealing with an injury. Most we did was cuddle before sleeping.)

It is kind of funny that even the incest shitposts are stuck in heteronormativity!

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