I think it's that he's coded female, in much the same way that Joanna Russ said that Spock was, when she wrote about the original phenomenon of slash. I sort of agree about Remus, he does seem 'feminine', but I don't agree about Spock; if one of the K/S pairing is 'coded female' it's Kirk. To quote an entry of mine from a long while back (hooray for tags): "Consider that Jim is the emotional, the intuitive, essentially the feminine; in spite of his (mostly undeserved) reputation (both in his universe and the real world) as a ladies' man. Consider also that Spock is the logical, the unemotional, the masculine. In K/S smut, Spock almost invariably tops, and I've yet to lay eyes on D/s or BDSM with a dom Kirk."
I don't think it's straight out being 'coded female' that had me thinking of Remus as gay, though, I think it was partly by comparison with Aziraphale from 'Good Omens'.
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Date: 2005-07-27 11:40 pm (UTC)I sort of agree about Remus, he does seem 'feminine', but I don't agree about Spock; if one of the K/S pairing is 'coded female' it's Kirk. To quote an entry of mine from a long while back (hooray for tags): "Consider that Jim is the emotional, the intuitive, essentially the feminine; in spite of his (mostly undeserved) reputation (both in his universe and the real world) as a ladies' man. Consider also that Spock is the logical, the unemotional, the masculine. In K/S smut, Spock almost invariably tops, and I've yet to lay eyes on D/s or BDSM with a dom Kirk."
I don't think it's straight out being 'coded female' that had me thinking of Remus as gay, though, I think it was partly by comparison with Aziraphale from 'Good Omens'.