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[–]Ladiablapequena 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Because of these people I'm now slightly embarrassed to be a yaoi fan. Before it was just stereotypical weebs who would embarrass me now we got weebs who want to be soft bois UwU

I will say as someone who is Gen Y it wasn't like this when I was a teen. The majority of girls/women despite some being cringe worthy weebs left gay men alone. I have never bothered a gay man in my life because like a normal person I lose attraction to people who are incapable of being attracted to me. Yaoi was just my equivalent of harlequin novels I never took them as representations for an actual gay relationship.

I don't know if me being bisexual, a fan of the opposite called yuri, being an older generation, or a combo of all three is the reason for me being a "normal" fan but I am so sorry you gay men have to deal with this.

I knew lesbians were dealing with trans women who were yuri fans bothering them although they're also lesbian/bi female yuri fans as well. We just hide from men who like it and try to seek out other females who like the genre.

I never expected women/girls to copy the same weird behavior as the male side.

[–]PassionateIntensity 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was when the shipping-is-activism SJW types gained prominence. Young women got shamed into identifying as trans men to prevent a 'fetishist' label (ironically!!!). It wasn't intrinsic to slash--I spent decades hanging out with those women (many used slash to flirt with other women). I never ran into one single trans man or anyone confused enough to believe they were representing actual gay men until 2009/10 when Tumblr became the dominant platform.