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Hey guuuuys, it's me… agaiiin, with another thought that I feel like I wanna get out there. Also, I wanna note that it's not just Lesbian or, well, yuri manga, but also Gay ones too that unfortunately fall under this. Now, this isn't a new thought; this has come back to me a lot. Unfortunately.
Throughout my years of searching and exploring far and wide for good lesbian, sapphic comics (including gay ones), I always seem to find something interesting or that feels like it's gonna be a nice read. Then, halfway through, I get hit with one of the leads going after their sibling or vice versa. Like, come on now, what... what the fuck? Why was this needed, and why was this even allowed in the first place? Also, what does it gotta do with the story? Is it important? Is this a life lesson for the characters and the reader to learn from? (likely not) Is this a warning for the reader or the characters to be aware of?
I'm not talking about like maybe a character has a tragic past with incest of any kind being involved, and how it affected her or his experience with how they deal with love, life, perspective of reality, or whatever. It's literally thrown in there as like a plot device in the middle of a story with lackluster research behind it or the author's secret-not-so-secret fetish, sometimes both. I know it's not just in LGBTQ manga and manhwa; it's also seen in other comic genres. It's, not gonna lie, a problem because most of the time it's fetish material and not talking about the harms of it. I see it a lot with the Lesbian, Gay, whatever Yuri/Yoai like A LOT, and I personally hate how it's been popping up more. Like, it's not only comics; it's in other media too (that one foreign show or movie I saw an ad for like 7 years ago about a guy who was in love with his male cousin, on YouTube, like...what the fuck??) like what's up with that?
I don't think this is a question anymore, more like a rant, but like I still feel like it's an important thing to notice and ask: why is fetishized incest in queer media or media at all? Really makes me sick, man. I'm just pissed off.
Throughout my years of searching and exploring far and wide for good lesbian, sapphic comics (including gay ones), I always seem to find something interesting or that feels like it's gonna be a nice read. Then, halfway through, I get hit with one of the leads going after their sibling or vice versa. Like, come on now, what... what the fuck? Why was this needed, and why was this even allowed in the first place? Also, what does it gotta do with the story? Is it important? Is this a life lesson for the characters and the reader to learn from? (likely not) Is this a warning for the reader or the characters to be aware of?
I'm not talking about like maybe a character has a tragic past with incest of any kind being involved, and how it affected her or his experience with how they deal with love, life, perspective of reality, or whatever. It's literally thrown in there as like a plot device in the middle of a story with lackluster research behind it or the author's secret-not-so-secret fetish, sometimes both. I know it's not just in LGBTQ manga and manhwa; it's also seen in other comic genres. It's, not gonna lie, a problem because most of the time it's fetish material and not talking about the harms of it. I see it a lot with the Lesbian, Gay, whatever Yuri/Yoai like A LOT, and I personally hate how it's been popping up more. Like, it's not only comics; it's in other media too (that one foreign show or movie I saw an ad for like 7 years ago about a guy who was in love with his male cousin, on YouTube, like...what the fuck??) like what's up with that?
I don't think this is a question anymore, more like a rant, but like I still feel like it's an important thing to notice and ask: why is fetishized incest in queer media or media at all? Really makes me sick, man. I'm just pissed off.
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(repost from experience cause soemone asked)
i barely use this, like no, this is actually my first time using this, but anyway, I personally think there should be more fat representation in manga, comics, etc., etc., that isn't them trying to get skinny. I've seen my fair share of them, way too many of them, have their character trying to get skinny. I'm not saying this as a bad thing; listen, it's good to want to better yourself or do better, but sometimes being fat isn't a negative thing, but it's treated like it.
I definitely know there's good fat character mangas like Pochamani...there's more I can't remember any at this point in time, BUT I PROMISE I'VE READ THEM, they are out there! however this isn't about this, i've seen way too many fat character who have potential to be good, evil or not, but fall flat because one, they are the same old copy and paste of "FAT, UGLY, THE FACE OF GREED, THE FACE OF GLUTTONY, THEY ARE TOO STUPID, RAH, RAH, RAH" or be seen as something looked down upon, it sucks.
it doesn't help that society (oh here we go), also beat down fat people, like it's something to be change, that it can be seen as beautiful, or sometimes normal, i'm not saying being unhealthy overweight is good, i'm just saying people can be fat and healthy, also smart, good mannered, etc they're just painted out to be the stereotypical fatphobic image because no one wants to understand that bodies can be different, but the same way being unhealthly fat can be the same for unhealthly skinny but no one wanna talk about that, but even the disorders with lacking of eatting is different for fat people? anyway i'm going off topic.
People can make good fat characters, they can be unique, they can evil, they can be good, they can be neutral, just don't have it centered around them being fat. people. can. just. be. fat. shocker right? it can just happen! i just personally hate the fatphobia, it causes more harm than good, a fat character should have a personality, should have a focus, should have an upbringing that changes or affects their outlook on things, can be seen as a main character, even if they were a side character there should be more to them than just a hollow out shape of stereotypes. Hell, there can be attractive fat people/characters just barely anyone wanna acknowledge that fact or explore that, and not that usual slim thick, that's not fat, that's just a curvy body, no she's not fat, she just got 20-30 percent body fat, that's healthy, having giant breast, hips, and ass isnt' fat she's well endowed. anyway gender doesn't matter in this; this affects everyone equally.
anyway this is just me ranting of something i was tired of seeing, as uh, rolling drumroll, fat person, go figured.
i barely use this, like no, this is actually my first time using this, but anyway, I personally think there should be more fat representation in manga, comics, etc., etc., that isn't them trying to get skinny. I've seen my fair share of them, way too many of them, have their character trying to get skinny. I'm not saying this as a bad thing; listen, it's good to want to better yourself or do better, but sometimes being fat isn't a negative thing, but it's treated like it.
I definitely know there's good fat character mangas like Pochamani...there's more I can't remember any at this point in time, BUT I PROMISE I'VE READ THEM, they are out there! however this isn't about this, i've seen way too many fat character who have potential to be good, evil or not, but fall flat because one, they are the same old copy and paste of "FAT, UGLY, THE FACE OF GREED, THE FACE OF GLUTTONY, THEY ARE TOO STUPID, RAH, RAH, RAH" or be seen as something looked down upon, it sucks.
it doesn't help that society (oh here we go), also beat down fat people, like it's something to be change, that it can be seen as beautiful, or sometimes normal, i'm not saying being unhealthy overweight is good, i'm just saying people can be fat and healthy, also smart, good mannered, etc they're just painted out to be the stereotypical fatphobic image because no one wants to understand that bodies can be different, but the same way being unhealthly fat can be the same for unhealthly skinny but no one wanna talk about that, but even the disorders with lacking of eatting is different for fat people? anyway i'm going off topic.
People can make good fat characters, they can be unique, they can evil, they can be good, they can be neutral, just don't have it centered around them being fat. people. can. just. be. fat. shocker right? it can just happen! i just personally hate the fatphobia, it causes more harm than good, a fat character should have a personality, should have a focus, should have an upbringing that changes or affects their outlook on things, can be seen as a main character, even if they were a side character there should be more to them than just a hollow out shape of stereotypes. Hell, there can be attractive fat people/characters just barely anyone wanna acknowledge that fact or explore that, and not that usual slim thick, that's not fat, that's just a curvy body, no she's not fat, she just got 20-30 percent body fat, that's healthy, having giant breast, hips, and ass isnt' fat she's well endowed. anyway gender doesn't matter in this; this affects everyone equally.
anyway this is just me ranting of something i was tired of seeing, as uh, rolling drumroll, fat person, go figured.