Im not a fujoshi i just ship gay people

Also, I am a Japanese, yes, from the country which has been producing those yaoi stories. So, please remember that this explanation is based on an assumption that all fans are "Japanese" straight girls. In Japanese society, especially some generation ago, like when I was younger, being girl means many restrictions.

Boys have lots of things girls can't do or are not supposed to do, which means more freedom. Hell, there's a LOT I don't like I can't help but like it, although I usually prefer my yaoi to make sense and not morally offend me. And I know, definitely, that I'm seriously not alone in thinking this way.

I don't like how either everyone's gay or bisexual, and if they're straight, then they'll still be unable to resist that gorgeous guy they've just met. How different is yaoi to "het" romance, and does this effect it's popularity? Parents told daughters, like "because you are a girl, do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that But my case has something else more So, Yaoi characters are exactly fulfilling girls that dream.

“Fujoshi” as a term was created by homophobic, sexist men specifically because female fans were “ruining” their male shounen characters by interpreting them as gay or making them more appealing to girls. Are you serious? When reading a manga series, I will end up shipping several characters, and I usually end up shipping roughly as many yaoi ships as I do hetero ships, if not more.

I have read a book studying about Yaoi culture and its fan's psychology behind it. Lastly, do you think yaoi, and the huge size of it's fandom, has had any impact on gay rights? The explanation is, "I wish I was a boy. Okay, I admit this - I am a Fujoshi.

I used to be a big fan of Yaoi, but it was like 15 years ago, way before the word "Fujoshi" started to be used. But as a Japanese, the explanation why yaoi was popular among Japanese girls made really sense to me. I don't like that all the men are kind of idealised - any faults they have tend to help the romance along the uke's being overly meek, for example.

On a personal level, I think the latter explanation of it being similar to your garden variety romance novels is pretty close to the mark. Of course, it studied Japanese fans, so what written in the book may not applicable to non-Japanese fans because your culture and society is different.

I freely admit this, and I have no shame about it. It's kind of like a fetish, maybe? I don't know how popular yaoi type of stories has become popular among non-Japanese fans. "Okay, but Western anti-fujo just wanted to protect gay men!" Carrd created by a Western fujin, and fact-checked by an unreasonably tall Japanese man (with thanks for all the help!) common misconceptions around fujoshi and Boys Love/BL content.

But that's about all I have to say on the topic, since I don't read those stories romances in general. The term translates to "rotten girl", and it's used as a term for a female anime fan who likes Boy's Love comics. Gender criticals refer to trans men (and by extension fujoshi) as ‘homophobic’ due to their belief that trans men are heterosexual women forcing their way into authentic (i.e.

They didn’t care about female characters being shipped and sexualized. Some of the shipping I do is light-hearted fun, while some other ships I'm more serious about - but if you were to seriously ask me why I like some of these ships, or the idea of yaoi in general, I'd be at a bit of a loss to tell you why.

Though, that doesn't sound like the right word - exotic might be better. cisgender) gay male spaces (Anti-fujoshi ). It's something I enjoy, and - dare I say it - something that I find kind of hot. I don't like how some of the relationships seem almost abusive and just a little bit rapey if that's a word , but it's excused because of "love".

But at the same time, as a girl, I wanna be loved by a man". there's a big difference between consuming content about gay relationships vs fetishizing them by being a fujoshi.