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'll admit to feeling the guilt bit, but mostly because it involves me finding it default awesome when a character is gay as opposed to not (see my post on 'Allo 'Allo! for more on that). When Dumbledore "came out" I was ecstatic over an already cool character becoming cooler. Same for when two male characters are expressing sexual tension.

But I don't think that's really fetishizing a sexuality, unless both individuals are hot (in which case, it's just the hot). For me, it's more that it's being different in a good way, same as any show that manages to put a male and female protagonist together without the slightest hint of sexual tension or romantic attraction (or has them in a relationship from start to finish).