Yeah, the fic is out there! According to Fanlore, it plays on various concepts of "gay", and doesn't have to literally include someone waking up gay. The idea is for someone to just suddenly turn gay. I don't remember ever reading it as a curse, but honestly I can mostly vaguely remember one Harry Potter fic I rad that used that trope. As I understand it, at least for some people this was meant as a criticism of slash in which a character "who was always perfectly straight" suddenly up and decides they're gay, without getting bit by a gay spider, or at least going through the emotional turmoil that's supposed to come with the gayness. But then, seems like some of the fic featured that sort of drama.
For the feminist thing, I was imagining the common cursed behavior path - Jensen/Dean doing things without realizing he is (OMG, even the show did that, in the dog episode. You know something is a cliche when they write it into the show ;)), at some point doing it out of compulsion, you know the drill.
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According to Fanlore, it plays on various concepts of "gay", and doesn't have to literally include someone waking up gay. The idea is for someone to just suddenly turn gay. I don't remember ever reading it as a curse, but honestly I can mostly vaguely remember one Harry Potter fic I rad that used that trope.
As I understand it, at least for some people this was meant as a criticism of slash in which a character "who was always perfectly straight" suddenly up and decides they're gay, without getting bit by a gay spider, or at least going through the emotional turmoil that's supposed to come with the gayness. But then, seems like some of the fic featured that sort of drama.
For the feminist thing, I was imagining the common cursed behavior path - Jensen/Dean doing things without realizing he is (OMG, even the show did that, in the dog episode. You know something is a cliche when they write it into the show ;)), at some point doing it out of compulsion, you know the drill.