This Ship stuff sounds like shojo

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11607

I'm curious about the slash pairings we talk about here -- Ron/Harry, 
Harry/Draco (!) and so on.

A lot of the ship discussion here is sounding more and more like a 
Japanese phenomenon, "shojo": Anime and manga targeted to young girls 
and women with strong themes of relationships and friendship. A 
frequent theme of this style are close -- very close -- and sexually 
ambiguous relationships between androgynous male characters, called 
"bishonen", the sense being "beautiful boys." [Most fic Dracos would 
be classic bishonen] An example: if anybody here is familiar with the 
first "Sailor Moon" series, which is shojo, there's two bad-guy 
characters, Jedite and Malachite. Here in the US, Malachite is female, 
but in Japan, both characters are male.  One of them even has 
Draco-silvery hair!

What's the dynamic for this?