Ok I have a genuine question, as someone who is bisexual and gender-fluid as In I see myself as he/she/they meaning I see myself as a woman and man (and in between or sometimes none) is it fetishizing for me to read BL? I also read GL but no one ever talks about it so but anyway I’m genuinely confused because people say it’s fetishizing gay men to like yaoi as a straight woman, but as someone who is a woman and a man is it wrong?(when I say BL I mean the whole category not just yaoi)
Some comments in the comment section completely miss the point and are so hard to read without cringing from the sheer ignorance they display.
There were only a few reasonable comments which actually understood what OP is saying.
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Fiction can affect reality. Yaoi being porn or fiction doesn't exempt it from criticism. Every genre, every s...... 2 reply
That’s like saying shoujo fetishizes straight people. It’s just a fictional story and while a lot of authors are women, there are also men who create yaoi content. Overall it’s a ridiculous claim because you can say it about anything, horror stories fetishise serial killers etc. 2 reply
I just don’t get why’s everyone is so mad about this type of stuff it’s just a genre or manga just read whatever you want woman can read bl men can read gl in all honesty it’s not like the world is ending or it’s causing some major problems just read what u enjoy and keep it to yourself reply
I’m a weeb and a kpopers but not in hard core way so i have this circle of weeb people all of them is guys they often ask me why i love reading yaoi so much they just say it’s kinda gross well i just don’t give fck and just say that yaoi is just made my day like yknow sometimes woman wanna have fun too, yaoi made for women the body and the fa...... reply
Honestly, I use to be like you. I use to read yaoi manwhas all the time but now I barely do, I mainly read reincarnation and action manwhas now. So my only advice is, just try reading different kinds of genres, I use to think that action manwha is too much but now here I am completely obsessed with it 1 reply
honestly i feel the same, yaoi is completely useless yet i still read for god knows why - its a waste of time and i could be doing so much productive things in the meantime, literally all of my days are wasted on reading. i think you just need to find something that overpowers reading, maybe a hobby or get into cooking ion know but thats gonna b my...... reply
So there's this user named bigdickdaddy (troll) who posts weird things, anyway I visited their homepage and it was full of hentai and I was like eww how can you read only hentai that's so unhealthy but when I came back to my homepage it was full of yaoi/bl, which made me wonder what makes me different from this person.
So it reminded me of all t...... 3 reply
Human for me is a person who exist. They seeking their own purpose in life and gather information for their own benefit and share to others. They like a grape vine. reply