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[swatkat]

Lovely post here that you all might want to read. I'm definitely one of the Cold Pricklies the OP is talking about. *g* "All slashers make the homoerotic subtext of their canon explicit, but not all think it's appropriate to also make the emotional subtext explicit" - this articulates the very reason that a *lot* of the fic in my favourite pairings (slash *and* het) have me gritting my teeth and pressing the back button.

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Re: Part II

[nell65.livejournal.com]

It does sound a bit confusing... wouldn't it be a bit annoying if the characters kept on thinking, "Am I manly enough for Boromir?" *scratches head

If they thought it consciously, all the time? Yes - though I think a rather large number of men do think that thought fairly consciously at one point or another in their lives. Manhood - as I understand and conceptualize it - is not a given. It is a self-conscious performance, tested against behavior and current notions of manliness in different and competitive environments.

Let me find the two stories I'm thinking of and try to show you by example what I'm talking about.