Perhaps there is a unconscious thought that if *we* had Clark (we being the women FoLCs), *we* would never treat him in such an abominable manner.
But Clark treated Lois pretty badly, too, at times. So why no "punish" Clark fics? And there really are none. Is it as simple as the gender thing - we still are harder on own sex than on men?
or is it like the line from the book -"She'll forgive a man for anything if he's good-looking enough". (I think it might have been Anne of Green Gables, believe it or not
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Btw, I was asking about not just the "Lois left alone" fics, but also fics in which Lois dies prematurely. There aren't many, as Caroline, says, but unlike the Lois parallel there's more than one of them.
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