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I’ve liked slash and m/m fiction since the early 2000s, but I never got into most yaoi because the hyper-feminine guys seemed so unrealistic to me. I never got into Tumblr, either. I don’t go for most m/f fiction because it tends to be way too into gender roles, or else the author overdoes how the woman is a Strong Female Character and Just As Good As A Man. F/f seems to often have a political slant that I find off-putting in a romance.

Back in the 2000s, people might do cosplay as male characters, but girls didn’t think liking those characters or liking slash meant they were trans men. I wonder how much of this can be attributed to Tumblr.