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Why yaoi semes have shitty behavior
Call me slow or dumb but does yaoi normalizes horrible semes since Asian countries treat their women like total shit and that is projected in most sex scenes? I feel like finding straight or Yuri romances without sa is easier than yaoi specially since sex scenes are such a big part of yaoi, these behaviors are much more present. It’s genuinely difficult finding any yaoi without dubious consent but it makes much more sense if the women writing thse BLs are basing it off their own or generally the woman experience of being with a man. It always seemed strange to me as a gay guy that these sex roles are so strictly implemented and decide which man has power over the other but it makes more sense seeing it from their perspective
As another gay dude reading yaoi, I think about this a lot. My understanding is it largely has to do with myths about masculinity.
Most yaoi back in the day run with common understandings of toxic masculinity, such as that men are inherently horny, hypersexual beings and that their love must always come with a sexual component ("you know you're in...... 3 reply
I saw a video on TikTok talking about how South Korea views sexual assault crime. I see comments saying that victims often face stigmatization. Like victim-blaming is so fucking common. The justice system is also lenient in perpetrators? They either avoid getting jail time or if not, they are given light sentences. After I read it, the rape culture...... 4 reply
I always blame this phenomena on Lezhin tbh. They normalize having rape scenes in their manhwas, causing other BLs to jump on that same bandwagon so they can "belong". 90% of BLs in Lezhin are filled with rape or at least some non-consensual scenes to the point that I joke to my friends that perhaps the contract forces them to include those scenes ...... reply
Honestly you can see this being shown in every country who releases bl's. Within how they view the genre they will always find a way to implement the worst parts of heterosexuality into relationships between 2 men. the thought that one needs to dominate the other really just traces back to the obvious ways in which men treat eachother to validate t...... reply
I read this comment here on questions :
"Author's note from The New Employee being nervous about making green flag ML coz Korean MLs are wholly red-flag-centric. Imagine...an author hesitating about drawing an ML from a fairly well- known classic BL and make him red-flag coz that's a Korean norm (though, really. Red flags are the go- to for major...... reply
To be honest the sa part is nearly in any smut story like fr
You can fine a sa story within mins if you go to the smut section
Yuri, yaoi ,shojo , Josei and straight
Anything really
And this sex roles …idk man that’s just a completely mysterious most of time it’s because of how popular it is or the author forgot to take their pills
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people need to keep in mind while reading yaoi (not just yaoi but manga/has in general) that not evry good artist is a good story teller. from what I noticed most of the stories are made by good artists that are just regular ppl. being a good artist AND a good story teller is quite uncommon unfortunately. so what we have is just artists deepest des...... 2 reply
I think there are many twisted authors out there, especially Asian , especially Japanese.. if you read yaoi then you would agree that Japanese yaoi mangas are the most twisted. In my opinion it s about the culture. As I understood there is a lot of pressure and supressed emotions in Asian culture and people are stressed and hide their stress inside...... reply
That really doesn’t sound likely at all. Personally I think the sa is just a way to shoehorn in a sex scene even when the bottom hasn’t fallen in love with the top yet. It’s just a common yaoi trope. I don’t think they think of it as being serious tho (because it’s fiction) considering how common it is to find. Curious, Do you have a spec...... 1 reply
