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Random Rant time: I hate Yaoi so much, it’s an awful representation of mlm relationships and I hate it’s catered to women audience instead of a mlm audience. A lot of this genre seems to have abuse, loose consent, and cp and that makes it more disgusting. Fujoshi’s are pretty shitty too. They fetishize gay men and I hate them for that.

I just wish there instead was a genre of mlm were it’s more catered to mlm and doesn’t focus mainly on the sex shit.
Jan 30, 2021
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lmao i have story!! i once was searching for yaoi on tumblr because i was a young naive child haha and i came across "Bara yaoi" like...gay bears! muscle gays! really big chunky gays! and...i forgot that google saved the latest visited site on the start page so i left the FAMILY computer and i got scolded so hard by my mother, what a discusting human i am, totally not christian😤😤 hahaha gosh that was embarrassing but i cant stop smiling when i think about my poor mother looking at bara men hahaha
Once I tried reading a yaoi manga
I had to stop halfway trhough because it was too uncomfortable to read
It is terrible, seriously I don't even know why it's popular, the stories are just plain unhealthy relationships that in no way are accurate
I like gay content but it's when the term "yaoi" is used that makes me cringe, almost everything labeled as such is horribly written and abusive. If they get better through character development that's one thing, I enjoy a good story with the characters learning from their mistakes and becoming better people. But jfc 99% of it is just "I know you constantly abuse me and you're never going to realize why that's bad, but that ass tho."
Big ol facts right here. I just can't get into those sorts of MLM anime because among other reasons, they always fetishize sensitive content to the point where it's treated as something normal. Banana Fish, a MLM anime that I legitimately really enjoy, may also have (off-screen) sensitive content, but it's always treated as something abhorrent instead of fetishized for the pleasure of fujos.