For me its kinda a weird relationship with the genre as I am aromantic asexual. Anything I read I can’t imagine applying to real people and it makes me very uncomfortable. I highly enjoy reading about couples in successful relationships though and seeing them make each other happy and working on their relationship which I find heterosexual relati...... reply
I think particular styles will give you that relationship more, like bara (these tend to be written by men, for men). Certainly Western comics. For sure you make a point, but it’s pretty much a selected formula for successful manga for reasons most have already addressed here before me.
What we read here are highly romanticised stories for wome...... reply
My thoughts exactly.
Am not a man but this has always bothered me. Like there's nothing wrong with liking a position more than the other (or liking neither), but not even trying???
Also how somehow it's always the shorter, softer and "traditionally feminine" one that ends up as bottom. Weird, isn't it? And how they never even talk about it and it's...... 1 reply
Okay, Lesbian here!!!
I agree, all the mangas where they're strictly top and bottom positions and the position is mainly decided on their appearance (which I think is bullshiii) are just catering to a predominantly women audience and trying to keep these heteronormative roles in homosexual relationships... most of these mangas are made byyyy ( dru...... 4 reply
yo im not even gay but i am kinda of a verse myself and i find it weird asf as welll. like gay people are gay. why are you trying to make them straight?? THAT RUINS EVERYTHING. JUST MAKE HENTAI INSTEAD
i like dropped so many things just because of that reply
There are gay people who are exclusively top or bottom, there isnt anything wrong with that. Lets be real though, BL is Heteronormative thats primarily why there is this sort of consensus that the person who bottoms is always feminine and the person who tops is always masculine. A lot of these authors are fetishists that dont see gay relationships ...... 1 reply