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Anyone else gets weirded out when
People refers to the characters in bls WHO ARE NOT EVEN SMUT BLS by seme and uke or top and bottom????? It's so weird to me like them characters have names and u can literally just say "mc" and "male lead/ml"
was gonna say its not that deep till u said not smut bls n its weird because the majority of bl/yaoi consumers are women and referring to characters as their sexual positions even when the content isnt explicit seems like fetishization 2 reply
idc if there is no smut I would just say the guy with red hair .. brown hair or the tall one I'm not going to remember any name even if it's easy and short 2 reply
Its because characters in any form of BL are nothing but sex positions to be distinguished by, dehumanisation at its finest 90% of BL with smut is fetishized too plus heteronormative, classic writer shit. 2 reply
Well it is a bit creepy when they say seme or uke, since those terms are more of fetishist terms
But I am fine with top or bottom since those are valid positions? (Not all LGBTQ relationships have positions though, some do and some don't, depends on personal preferences)
However yeah it's much easier to call them by their names or their titles of...... 2 reply
A lot of bls are usually japanese or Korean so using seme/uke is understandable because some east asian names are difficult to pronounce or spell. And seme and uke is literally means top or bottom plus the stories are fiction. It's weird if people use seme/ uke in real life that's just fetishizing them but is stories it's okay coz nons of that is r...... reply
I personally call them MC and ML. I struggle with remembering names, I read so many stories at the same time that it’s basically impossible. However, I also don’t mind when people say top or bottom, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a fictional story. reply
yeah i mean yeah i get that but most people dont even know the meaning of seme & uke, top and bottom. usually they would be referring to the more dominant one or the more submissive one in the relationship (yes i get its a stereotype but thats how its been categorised) but nah i agree w u 100% its kinda weird af, you only expect that shit when rea...... 1 reply