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misogyny....and yuri???
hey guys local girlkissing gooner here and I realized that in all my years of internet freakiness I've never seen a site based on yuri quite like how mangago is based on yaoi. It made me think about how gl isn't taken seriously like bl is cause its like "dumb girls being in love they're just being silly haha!!" like I'm opening my eyes now and maybe some of us have some internalized misogyny subconsciously Anyways this was an excuse to get you guys to drop yuri site links. DROP YURI SITE LINKS NOW. I NEED IT SO BADDD
I think it's not that hard to understand. I won't deny the misogyny issues within the sphere of Yaoi consumers but the primary reason why Yaoi is way more popular than Yuri has to do with attraction. (Sometimes internalised misogyny can be too)
Most Yaoi consumers are straight women or, at least, women who are somewhat attracted to men. Women in g...... 1 reply
People say that they like to see men because they don't like women being objectified, however, the main reason yaoi is popular is because women like men. And people would go on tangent talking about how they'd never dated man. But the concept and the image of a man is still very attractive to them; it's not like a man suddenly turns into something ...... reply
"Yuri isn't taken seriously because it's dumb girls falling in love haha!!"
No, like, literally, you just answered your own question. Women don't enjoy seeing women portrayed as dumb and infantialized. We also don't like seeing women drawn chibi style or so incredibly innocent that they're borderline children. Sometimes I wonder if men actually wa...... 1 reply
The patriarchy hurts us all!
But also if straight guys wanted to read yuri, they aren’t going to read actual yuri. They are gonna click on that ai hentai ad that mgg has.
So not much demand when it comes to men.
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Sure it play a role especially in publishing stories but I think also there's just less of a market for Yuri in general and it's a less visible genre so the communities are smaller and nicher. reply
