What's fucking worse is I have an 11 year old cousin who reads yaoi, and one time she reccommended me this particular yaoi, that made me want to gag cause I KNOW THAT WHAT I READ WAS LITERAL RAPE, and I told her that, but she said "it's fine" like it's so fucking normalized, i'm so fucking tired of this shit ughh
I started reading yaoi when I was ten cause I liked shoujo and wanted to try showmen- next thing u know I’m a 13 year old yaoi fanatic ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I understand that rape and assault seems to be normalized, to the point where I myself don't even notice it, but if it's what the viewers want and the ratings go up...what is there to do than just go with the flow, but only, and Only if, others can distinguish fiction from reality...I dont care what others see or read, as long as they don't do this in real life
Yeah, that's the thing, when you start so early you learn these things and normalize it without even noticing, you think what you think is right but it's not, you know people who are like you so you feel comfortable to stay the same, and you're either gonna take a while to grow out of those mindset, or you never do. What i'm saying is, I hope your mindset is in the right, and I hope you keep on learning, I don't want my co- fujoshis to normalize shit like rape, sexual assault, fetishizing gay men etc.
Yes yes, I understand what you're saying. I agree that anyone can read whatever they want as long as they don't normalize it in real life, but my problem is, I know there are kids that read stuff like this and normalize it in real life, and not just that, literally MOST as in MOST yaoi that i've read have something to do with rape or sexual assault, even tho it has nothing to do with the story or plot. They also make these shitty ass characters that rape but gets away with it cause in the end they say sorry and become friends like it's so unrealisticly disgusting, the least they can do is put a trigger warning which they did not. Also most of the time the rapist is the seme, but they still end up "happily" together, like wtf is wrong with these author's mind??
Ok so, I really am about to cry cause of frustration and I just wanna get it out there, WHY DO MOST YAOI MANWHAS NORMALIZE SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE???? wtf author??? Like why can't I read a Yaoi with good characters and NO FUCKING RAPIST??? Like I feel so frustrated, I feel gross, triggered and fucking uncormfortable when this happens, IT'S FUCKING DISGUSTING AUTHOR, for fucks sake, I just wanna cry, I feel awful...