This ties into the cishet trying to make the LGBTQ+ straight. I know a bunch of cases where Str8 ppl have asked gay men who the woman in the relationship was. Like wtf? And then as someone who physically identifies as a woman (unfortunately), I got asked who was the man in the relationship when I was dating my gf. Like excuse you sir, there is no m...... reply
It is kind of weird when people do that. There are so many other ways to refer to characters like shortened real name, intials, obvious feature/personality trait, MC/ML etc. But when they do the "seme/uke" thing (even in 18+ BL), it just feels like they don't care about the character. I can understand when it's there on smutty oneshot stories or ev...... reply
i completely agree. as a gay guy, i think its great that straight women can appreciate bls and shonen ai. but its uncomfortable if they focus primarily on the sexual aspects of a community (mlm or nblm) that they are not a part of, especially if the story wasn't even sexual in the first place reply
the word "uke" and "seme" always rubbed me the wrong way,,, even if i couldn't remember their names (because of course i would) i wouldn't use those words reply
Not only straight women, people need to stop saying that in general, it encourages stereotypes, since irl there’s usually no “top” or “bottom” one of the partners may prefer to be in a certain position in bed but that doesn’t give anybody the right to label them as that. It’s also very heteronormative so like just stop 1 reply
