It's thoughts on yaoi time again, ladies and gentlemen!

[seiberwing]

A gay man posts a secret on fandomsecrets about how he hates that yaoi fangirls fetishize his sexuality, and understandably the entire thing starts wanking faster than a submarine engineer who's gotten on the internet for the first time in a year and a half. I get into it here and here for the most part, but pretty much everyone's sharing their thoughts on the matter.

(Warning: Image heavy. For the dialup-gifted, the secret in question is here.)

My thoughts, highly distilled, are that traditional yaoi isn't fetishizing a sexuality so much as a specific ideal and dynamic, and anyone who thinks that real gay men act like that has a few more problems than the doujinshi on her hard drive. Any thoughts from the audience?

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[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I was hoping to hear from a Y-bearer on this one. Yaoi as a genre's never held my interest to begin with, as I tend to prefer my pairings not to default to inequality without extenuating circumstances. Also because of the whole highly dubious consent issue, which is the same issue I have with romance novels.

Hurrah Rule 34.