I was just thinking that I probably already do this to some extent, it's just subconscious. It's hard not to pick up on this stuff by osmosis if you're constantly swimming in fandom-analysis land – or, as the olds call it, "wearing slash goggles."

It reminds me of a point I once heard about the reason that women are more likely to see romantic or sexual intent in men's behavior onscreen: we're trained to be hypersensitive to the threat of romantic/sexual interest from men in real life, since that's often what's lurking between ostensibly platonic interaction. Male writers, meanwhile, are trained in the reverse: they're constantly interpreting genuinely platonic female behavior as romantic or sexual. So that affects the way male and female characters are written and subsequently interpreted.