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Yaoi lovers, do you consider yourself a fujoshi? Why/why not?
I read a ton of yaoi all the time, and I enjoy it a lot, but I don't really consider myself a fujoshi. I think it's mainly because I never ship any characters together. I understand why people do ship characters, but personally I don't have any emotional appeal to ships. I read yaoi mainly out of boredom like for entertainment, so I only get emotionally invested in the story like half of the time so I never really care about ships or who ends up together in a story. I just read to see how the author decides to develop the story and who they favor at the end.
well, fujoshis are females who read yaoi, not who ship yaoi characters lol so you are a fujoshi, I am a fujoshi. Saying you're not one it's like saying a dog is not a dog because it doesn't bark 24h/7. "It has a bad connotation" ZZZZzzZZ so does feminism, nihilism, and a bunch of other stuff. Just because people think X of something doesn't make me...... reply
Yeah, because in my opinion, there are many relationships that I personally should have been better with guyxguy but y'know some media isn't very keen on that so. And when there is I enjoy it maybe even a little more than straight relationships b/c fuck idk, they seem more intimate and more connection? Also the good BL stories have such good plot a...... 1 reply
I mean i'd say i'm a bit half, not full? because fujoshi to me is full on love mode towards any gay related stuff. While i am technically like that, i still ship some hetero couples rather than the gay one (i/e: kuroko no basket). And i never really shipped any yaoi characters together just because there's no point since "it's in your face" type of...... reply
I love yaoi but I would not consider myself a fujoshi. I like BL a lot I read a lot of it but I also know when to separate myself from it. The only time I ever think about BL is when I am reading it in fiction. To me being a fujoshi is when you mainly ship BxB in any type of media, when you become attached to a male character purely because they ar...... reply
I've found that there's a rather negative connotation associated with the term fujoshi... I think it implies you fetishize m/m love. Since I don't enjoy reading yaoi for that reason, I don't think I'd assign that label to myself. I just enjoy reading stories that feature love between two men because I enjoy seeing men in more vulnerable situations ...... reply
Not really no, I often try to distance myself from the fujoshi label, as it does have negative connotations. And just like you, I don't really ship characters like my other fujoshi friends. My friends automatically assume that if you like BL, then you like BL ships. Both in real life and non-BL media. But like, I don't do that. I don't go crazy ove...... reply
Fujoshi = female who loves reading BL. Just to make it clear.
The term is only pejorative in Japan and that has nothing to do with fetishising or shipping M/M. They're just called "rotten" because they don't follow the "right patch", be a good girl, smile and don't do anything embarassing (reading sexual/LGBT stories are).
And of course I'm a fujo...... reply
I've read over 400 manga series so considering that the yaoi genre would only amount to maybe 20% or less of the manga I have ever read as a rough esitamte I would have to say no despite the fact that I fit the definition pretty well. I do love to read yaoi and I do ship characters however yaoi is only a small portion of the manga that I read. Tech...... reply
