Baby Gravy's answer page 3 (138)

I don't think the concept itself is bad but stories with them do seem to be mostly smut with no plot and you're right, very degradation and humiliation based (almost S&M like). I'm not so sure it is as much misogyny as it is like toxic masculinity/pride of being a man with a penis, not a vagina, though you could also say having a vagina shouldn't c......   1 reply

I'm fr married but I just have my husband use my account to read manga (if it's on here anyway) since he's a very casual reader and anything he'd be interested in I'd likely be interested in too.   reply

Good ramble, I can agree with everything you've said. I feel like especially when it comes to yaoi vs most yuri and hentai you can also see how much more women tend to be objectified and how much of it is well, just, sex, and no plot. I think if fujoshi were as into fetishizing gay relationships as antis claim, we would do it like the men do and ju......   1 reply

Plastic surgery is fine, but maybe look deeper into why you want it. Are you just trying to achieve a certain aesthetic? Or do you hate your body? It's okay to not like parts of yourself and want to change them, but it's more concerning when it gets to body dysmorphia levels, and if you do have body dysmorphia, you won't feel satisfied with only on......   reply

I tend to ramble and enjoy it but other people often don't like it. I'm strongly opinionated and have a strong abrasive personality when it comes to things I care about. I'm pretty severely depressive (it comes and goes), nihilistic and pessimistic (though if you're like-minded this is a green flag in my experience). I try to just keep it all unde......   reply

Uh. Ok.   reply

I agree but I also kind of feel like if people want a place to talk and vent Mangago forums might not be the best place for this exact reason. We get all kinds of people from all walks of life here (trolls included) with almost zero moderation. While it's always great to see communities come together and create safe and welcoming spaces, I just can......   reply

I have a friend who was a fan of it early on and was just obsessed with Jaekyung and thought he was hot. I felt so bad for her as it went on and continually got worse and we were both like god why are we still reading this lmao. She's not even that into yaoi and this was the first one I saw her really latch onto and it ended up being trash lmao. I ......   reply

Immediately bitched about it to friends, then browsed Reddit, then ate breakfast, came back and we're back baby!   reply

Bro, don't even joke like that, me and Mangago been going steady for years （/TДT)/ Nah but really, I would just die inside. I've been reading yaoi/bl online since I was 15, I'm 25 now, and nothing has ever come close to this site, I am so happy. Back in the day I had my mangas spread throughout three sites, eventually ran out of stuff to read......   reply

This sounds as legit as perennial sunning.   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

If there's something special about the smut it can get me aroused and I'll start fantasizing and masturbating but it's not technically to the yaoi and characters, I think about something else (like I read a phrase I think is hot and imagine my SO saying it to me). But 9/10 times the smut doesn't do it for me, most is too tame or vanilla. If I'm ovu......   reply

My first manga I'm pretty sure was Naruto, if not Ghost Hunt and Tsubasa (randomly bought vol 6 of both when I was 15). My first manhwa, never read it until I joined Mangago and going off of my "already read" looks like it was Make Me Bark.   1 reply

If it were me I would go for it. I usually start talking about sex and perverted shit and see how they respond, but I've been lucky in that the girls I was interested in ended up being interested in me too (but that was how I tested the waters).   reply

What is your cultural background? I find Asian moms (especially Filipinos) tend to be really clingy, but I don't tend to see it with American moms. My mom (American) was rather detached but I think that was because she was dealing with physical and mental health problems. Regardless, work on enforcing boundaries. Whenever she is pushing or crossin......   1 reply

Tl;dr: It was mostly bad, but I'm trying to stay positive. Wellllll *cough* I "attempted" and got put into an awful mental hospital against my will for 10 days which gave me new trauma and nightmares, my back is either further herniating or my steroid epidural is wearing off (getting an MRI done in an hr, and upon looking at the tests done 2 years......   reply

Yes. Was friends with him since I was like 12. He started pushing boundaries he was well aware of, he just started dating this girl that made him stop caring I guess, or maybe that's just what I want to tell myself so I hate him less, idk. Happened on social media and I called him out on it, my mom came and comforted me, he seemed to throw a fit an......   reply

I feel like straight content is getting better. Speaking specifically about josei, shoujo I feel like is a lost cause (though I am really liking Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki), same with seinen it's always gratuitously ecchi (but Lady K and The Sick Man is goated). The biggest problem with straight content imo, which I think yuri suffers from immensely......   1 reply