Lmao welcome to my series of blogs where I talk about some of my more serious opinions?? Again, keep in mind these are my opinions. That being said, I clearly believe in my opinion if I’m posting about it. (Keep in mind that I’m not hating on slash writing at all!)

I’ve noticed a lot of people say “____ ship must be real!” or “____ must be gay!” and I feel like this is a bit unfair. We don’t know these celebrities/idols personally, so we can’t say those statements with resolution. I’m not saying that it’s wrong to speculate, because there are so many fanfictions that include all orientations of various idols, but that’s all it is—speculation. Because of the large divide between fanfiction and reality, nobody really believes the events in fanfiction would happen in real life. But pushing personal opinions on a private matter isn’t fair to the person in question. I don’t think it’s okay to declare that someone must be gay/biual/pan/etc. when we really don’t know that at all. At one point I think it even turns into izing LGBTQ+, but I have no idea where that point is and I’m no authority on the subject. Saying those ships are cute and writing about them? Sure! Watching moments between members or idols? Sure! But it crosses over to being intrusive the moment we say or imply our personal speculation about someone’s identity to be true.  

This goes for everyone saying these people must be cis heterouals, by the way. It would be a double standard for me to say otherwise. If I say to not assume orientation or uality only when someone is saying that someone must be gay or trans, that would be just assuming that the person in question is straight. Again, we don’t know that. We can speculate but none of us have the right to say with certainty what orientation or uality someone is. We know that Korea is pretty strict and there’s a ton of stigma against anything not heteroual, but at the same time, there probably are a few idols that choose not to come out publicly in order to protect themselves.

People’s orientation and ualities aren’t really our business, so we can’t say anything with certainty unless we’ve been told that by the idol themselves. Anyway who cares about their uality or orientation? If you like an idol, you like an idol. Their orientation or uality has nothing to do with that.

TL;DR: Don’t say that you know someone’s uality or orientation must be this way or that way when we don’t know. Write slash fanfiction all you want, and if you want to think of them on any scale of the uality spectrum, that’s chill, but it’s your own opinion and not a fact, so don't present it as a fact.