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Obviously no one's gonna argue with you that there are considerably less GCH fics than fics with other bands in them. But personally, I see this as being because perhaps bandom in general doesn't find the GCH boys very attractive. I know I personally don't, so I'd rather not read fic about them. I know it shounds shallow and lame, but really, if most bandom boys weren't so pretty, the number of people who would care to read/write fic about them would be considerably less than it is now. So I don't see the lack of GCH fic as soley to do with the race issue. There is definitely some merit to what you have said in your post, about writers and readers feeling more comfortable dealing with characters who pass as white, but I think this has less of an impact on the lack of GCH fic than other reasons, like the boys' physical looks.
And I'm not trying to say the boys are unnatractive because they aren't white. I myself don't identify as white, and I'm very proud of my race and find guys of different ethnicities other than white to be very appealing. However, the GCH boys just couldn't even be any less attractive to me. And maybe I'm making a huge assumption here, I dunno, but I feel like many people feel the way I do about them and would rather not read/write fic about them for this reason, not because they are "brown."
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The thing is, I've seen people use "I just don't find so-and-so attractive," in a way that I'd consider problematic, i.e., someone saying, "I just don't find black/Asian/Hispanic/Latino people attractive." When it's phrased like that, it's seeming to assume that a) all members of a specific race or ethnicity look the same, and b) those features are automatically judged lesser compared to features that are usually white. So, while, yes, we all have our subjective opinions on what makes someone hot or not, it doesn't automatically mean that there aren't other societal factors that play into that.
There's also the question of what leads people to write: while someone may write fiction about a person they consider attractive, somebody else may write because of dynamic, or personality. There's a great variety of reasons why people are drawn to fiction, and finding someone hot is only one of them.
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And I think too many people are inferring that those of us who don't want to read fic about these guys must be because of race issues or other "societal factors." There are some people, yes, but I do not believe they are the majority.
And I also agree with what you said about why people write. But let's face it: people are gonna be more inclined to write about someone they have an interest in. Just because someone isn't interested in a black man as a main character for their story doesn't mean it has to be because of a race issue that writer has with blacks.
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(no subject)
While race may be a factor in the "large discrepancy between the presence of POCs in the source material and the presence of POCs in the fan material", I don't see that as meaning the writers are anti-POC or racist in any way. If fandoms as a whole default to using certain characters more in fic, and these characters are of the same race, it could just mean the fandom as a whole has similar tastes in what each individual finds attractive. That doesn't have to be an attack on any one race.
And I agree. The discussion is always nice and eye-opening. It's really neat to discover how many sides and opinions there are about a single issue.