Top/Bottom/Switching gets people really fired up. Everyone has OPINIONS.
I think a lot of the issue is people complain. If IDK my BFF was tagged bottom Draco without mentioned switching, the people who read it expecting it to be bottom Draco would have a fit. No matter his characterization, the fact that he tops at all would cause drama.
And no one wants to deal with that.
The tagging for it (on the author's part) is somewhat a branch from there. Some of it is maybe pushback about perceived reader entitlement. We've all gotten comments from people complaining about who tops or bottoms in a specific story (which just makes me want to write more of the dynamic that pisses them off, but whatever), but, again maybe just me, but the complaints I get when I *do* tag are just... weird. Like the one someone complained that I had In Flight tagged as Top Draco - because he does the penetrating, and had multiple complaints that since Harry was PHYSICALLY ON TOP OF DRACO, he was topping and my tagging was wrong. (I removed the note and tag)
And the "YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS FIC BOTTOM WHATEVER BECAUSE BOTTOM OTHER GUY IS NASTY/WRONG" comments are much easier to ignore than the sense of personal betrayal that comes with something perceived as being tagged incorrectly.
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Date: 2015-03-18 05:11 pm (UTC)I think a lot of the issue is people complain. If IDK my BFF was tagged bottom Draco without mentioned switching, the people who read it expecting it to be bottom Draco would have a fit. No matter his characterization, the fact that he tops at all would cause drama.
And no one wants to deal with that.
The tagging for it (on the author's part) is somewhat a branch from there. Some of it is maybe pushback about perceived reader entitlement. We've all gotten comments from people complaining about who tops or bottoms in a specific story (which just makes me want to write more of the dynamic that pisses them off, but whatever), but, again maybe just me, but the complaints I get when I *do* tag are just... weird. Like the one someone complained that I had In Flight tagged as Top Draco - because he does the penetrating, and had multiple complaints that since Harry was PHYSICALLY ON TOP OF DRACO, he was topping and my tagging was wrong. (I removed the note and tag)
And the "YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS FIC BOTTOM WHATEVER BECAUSE BOTTOM OTHER GUY IS NASTY/WRONG" comments are much easier to ignore than the sense of personal betrayal that comes with something perceived as being tagged incorrectly.