This is one hundred billion percent worse when straight (cis also, mind you) guys try to write GL (which I actively seek out to read more than Bl now). Not gonna name any names, but there's a lot of authors who fetishise, sexualize and misrepresent mlm in their comics (because the only LGBT media they consume are yaoi anime or glee or something) and then have the gall to present themselves as great allies! A lot of the time they don't even seem to realize it and really think they are really great great great allies and being really progressive. I know there's a substantial LGBT+ community on Tapastic, and there are A LOT of LGBT+ romance comics on Tapastic, ESPECIALLY BL comics.īefore I was involved in the LGBT community I used to read BL with no problem, but once I started figuring myself out and immersed myself in people's experiences and thoughts from every letter of the acronym, I realized that I was, honestly.kind of weirded out and sometimes even disgusted by a lot of the BL comics on this and other sites.įor a bit I was afraid it was because I was secretly homophobic (?) but then I realized that a lot of BL comics on this site are written by straight girls-in a disproportionate amount to the comics actually written by mlm.
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A big part of the reason why I love webcomics so much is because they often have LGBT+ themes and characters, which I don't get much in mainstream movies and TV (except for kids' cartoons, ironically enough hehe). So here's the deal: I'm not a straight person.
If a female homosexual relationship shows up, though.Hey there my dudes. Shinsekai yori, which barely depicted any male homosexuality and still got people up in arms). If a male homosexual relationship shows up in something targeted at general audiences, it's generally not well-received (cf. Similarly, there's a strong segregation between BL media and "everything else". This may explain why there is a well-accepted name for fujoshi (they're a weird outgroup, gotta call them something) but not so much for hime-danshi ("you're not into lesbians? what are you, gay?"). "Why Straight Men Gaze at Gay Women") I imagine the same extends to non-pornographic media. It is well-documented that men, on average, are really into lesbian porn (see e.g. I speculatively submit the following as a possible reason why there are no clear analogues to the term fujoshi: a woman consuming media about male homosexuality is somehow more "scandalous" or otherwise unusual than a man consuming media about female homosexuality. "yuri-liker" exists and would be well-understood, but it's compositional in meaning and doesn't feel like a distinct "word" to me. "princess-girl" for a female person who enjoys lesbian/yuri media.
This term does not appear to have very much purchase (certainly much less than fujoshi or fudanshi), but it does exist.Īs you might expect, it has a counterpart 姫女子 hime-joshi lit.
I think this is a relatively recent coining - the Nicopedia article on this term dates to 2012, and the earliest clear attestation on Twitter I've found is this one from Feb 2011 (though, I don't know if Twitter was popular enough in Japan prior to 2011 to be reliable for gathering attestations). "princess-boy" for a male person who enjoys lesbian/yuri media.