It really depends for me on intent. obviously if someone is calling it Yaoi and fetishizing it then yeah, but some people grew up calling it Yaoi. And admittedly, so did we. It's our vocab. It's just intent for me.
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Am I the only one that feels really uncomfortable when someone uses the term "yaoi" and not BL? I always automatically think that that person is a fetishizer and doesn't see the genre as more than porno to get off to
I haven’t seen much personally, probably just cause of the genres I like, it when I do see trans characters they’re normally handled pretty well, most recently was tasuku tsubakino from windbreaker. reply
I would say it's a case by case scenario. There are manga with great representation, manga with ok representation, manga where you can at least see the good intentions the mangaka had, and then there are manga that truly belong in the trash lol
I would say manga that targets a mainly female demographic tend to have interesting explorations of gende...... 1 reply
its very strained most of queergender characters are used as a plot for fetishes and cross dressing bls which there are exceptions but yet there are some VERY good mangas which have shaped my view on myself but you need to search hard reply