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[–]chandra 21 insightful - 5 fun21 insightful - 4 fun22 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I was introduced to yaoi at a young age and obsessing with reading/writing it for nearly a decade helped me understand that I’m a trans gay guy too

Why do these girls not realise that yaoi is written by women, for women? You can't learn anything about gay men from reading yaoi, it's all women's fantasies about something they can never really understand. If you, a woman, relate to the characters in yaoi, that means the yaoi is fulfilling it's intended purpose for you as a woman. You aren't relating to gay men, you're relating to the fantasies of other women.

[–]TiredTrendersSuper-gay 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why? Because they're no different from how straight men fetishize lesbians. That's what yaoi is at its core. A woman's fetishized interpretation of gay men made to appeal to herself and other women.

Telling them that yaoi isn't a realisitic portrayal whatsoever of actual gay men breaks the illusion and their perceived idealizations of what being a gay man is and that makes them very mad lol.

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. But they get sooooo mad when you say this lol.