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?

Comments

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

*groans* No, just... No.

Fuck this shit. I'll write what I want and I figure, as long as I'm not triggering anyone or inciting to harm, it's no one's business what kind of dynamic my characters have. Writing fan fiction and drawing yaoi comics are completely different things from generic lesbian porn(for one thing, no money was made, no were any real people hurt in the making of my porn), and for god's sake, there is such a thing as a back button, also, I am not obliged to rewrite everything in my life for teh poor manz.

Also, fandom!secrets pisses me off. It's like every troll with Paint goes and throws up all over it.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

F!S does provide occasional amusement, but there's always at least one guy per post who's got their pants on too tight.

I'd disagree about the money -- someone's gotta be paying the artists who put these on the market.

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I'm a dipshit! :D Of course someone makes money off yaoi comics, and quite a bit from time to time*laughs at self*. Sorry, I was a little crabby there. I just meant fanfic.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's all right, that's probably also what the secretmaker meant. But profiting off porny art carries nowhere near the baggage that comes with live action porn.