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I don’t think it makes it normalized IRL. These stories are very obviously fiction; I would in no way support this relationship IRL but I like reading about it and I’ll root for it here. There’s probably a psychological reason why that I’m not aware of, but there are a shocking number of people who like reading toxic or dark romance, and most of those people don’t let it carry over into IRL. I get your point and I do wish there were more fluffy BL, but I don’t like the insinuation that stories like this normalize rape. I promise you they do not (so long as 12 year olds aren’t reading them )
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I understand but I think the problem is more nuanced than that. There are many levels of rape culture, and many forms of rape in media. To me there is a huge difference between full-on rape porn and a book like Haunting Adeline/a webtoon like this. The biggest difference is the target audience: men for the former, women for the latter. I think real rape porn does have a horrible impact, especially on the men who watch it who then think it’s okay and the women who are affected by it. But something like this is more fiction-based, and read for a different reason. There are so many people who read stuff like this who do not condone rape or assault. To say that they think it’s okay/are desensitized to it because of stuff like this is baffling to me. I think women’s enjoyment of content like this does say something interesting psychologically, but I myself cannot name what that is. Maybe when society is more egalitarian it won’t be as common in womens lit, but for now it is.
can't believe they pull the sickest shit known to man in yaoi and make it look so normalized irl
when r yaoi authors gonna learn that yaoi has more plotlines than all this abusive problematic toxic relationships where the seme gets away w everything at the end
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