I'm a fairly low-effort shipper - I do get into rarepairs sometimes, but then they tend to be rare because they're not seen as good-looking or cool enough to interest many shippers, not because there's not much canon dynamics and interaction to build on. So when I'm into an f/f ship it's usually for a canon that has prominent female characters who mean a lot to one another, like in a good number of manga/anime canons. I'm more used to thinking of them as "yuri" rather than "femslash". Shonen manga often have a lot of problems with sexism, but they do tend to be good at providing female characters with other women to interact with, and shojo is even better. (Nami in One Piece has pretty much chemistry with every woman she interacts with, for instance.)
That being said, I do write and read m/m and het more than f/f, and that may indeed have something to do with being more into male characters being vulnerable and emotional. Possibly. But I see my shippy fanfic preferences as just a small part of my fannish and media preferences overall. I'm more into genfic than shipfic to start with; I'm very often deeply into a canon without having any urge to read or write fics for it; and a lot of my favourite canons do have good reps of minority demographics. It's often how they become my favourite canons, in fact...
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Date: 2018-12-10 09:39 am (UTC)That being said, I do write and read m/m and het more than f/f, and that may indeed have something to do with being more into male characters being vulnerable and emotional. Possibly. But I see my shippy fanfic preferences as just a small part of my fannish and media preferences overall. I'm more into genfic than shipfic to start with; I'm very often deeply into a canon without having any urge to read or write fics for it; and a lot of my favourite canons do have good reps of minority demographics. It's often how they become my favourite canons, in fact...