Aw! Sorry the thumbs down. It meant the other.
True story:
even adult toy store attendants can sometimes be biased as well... i unfortunately came across one such example.
my boyfriend has always known that i'm a hardcore fujoshi, and one conversation led to us researching RL anal (not magical yaoi ones), and well... let's just say it's soo damn complicated. one website wrote that because of all the prep work and precaution work a lot of people gay/straight/otherwise tend to just not do anal sex too often (not like yaoi when it's every time you see a bed and many times when you don't even).
sorry for the tangent.
my boyfriend, bless his heart, still wanted to go ahead and so we went to an adult toy shop and bought all sorts of things (the hygiene part we bought on line, but the play part we thought it'd be best to handle the goods real time).
first, the attendant was like: is it for the lady?
my bf said: no for me.
attendant (to my bf): oh you're a sub?
(why did the first thing this guy assume is that my bf surely must be a sub to take it up the ass?)
my bf: not really, we're vanilla only that she (points at me) is a yaoi freak. i got curious.
attendant to me: oh so you're one of those f*g hags? (he made a grimace)
(eh who says that any more?)
to the attendant's defense, he looks really young... like maybe his eyes are not yet open to the facts of the world.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
This manga is beautiful. Why the hell should you complain and expect that a woman would automatically want to be uke? What's the point of her rebirth if you keep forcing limited options on her? And cut the sexist crap about how woman = uke. A mangaka dares to try the untested and you all start whining. Expecting a woman to "naturally be uke" is like expecting that it's "natural" for a guy to be seme, hence implying that male ukes are unnatural.
If you force your disgusting heternormative stereotypes on a beautiful yaoi manga and start shaming/hating on a woman reborn as a seme, please fuck off and go read shoujo. Since you find it so unnatural that a woman might want to be seme, best that you stick to your stereotypical romances.