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[–]RoundFork 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Same here, but about a decade older maybe. Had a group of female friends, ALL yaoi fangirls(including me). None of us identify as a man then or now, ‘cuz those were just porn, not real life, it IS a fetish, and self-insert fanfiction is GREATLY looked down upon (kids call it “kin” now?).

Come on, as fun as the drama in bl could be, the characters are all very, very stupid when you think about their actions for 5 seconds... how could anyone identify with that?!

Is genderbender no longer popular, btw? The wish-fulfillment trope of “ta-da, I had to hide my identity but I was a girl all along! Proved all you misogynists wrong!” ...like Mulan, whom they’re forcefully transing.

[–]RevengeOfTheCis 26 insightful - 2 fun26 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Genderbender" is transphobic now, lol. Now they trans characters, instead. Sometimes an entire fandom will trans the same character, even when the character is not trans in the source material, and if you refuse to go along with the transing, you're bullied out of the fandom. (Grell Sutcliffe from Black Butler, Hanji Zoe from Attack on Titan, the entire cast of Steven Universe, etc.)