Yea, actually reading lots of stories like this (and yaoi is absolutely filled with it) does actually normalize rape. Maybe it won't make people actually rape in real life but it does change their attitudes towards it, for the worse. Basic psychology.
c'mere. You need a hug. That is some real cra-cra "basic psychology" you've got going on there. You think reading yaoi normalizes rape for people? lol
"the girl came to think that rape was normal so she didn't wear panties to her high school formal" LOLOLOL
"Too much emotion for the girl...she let rape become her world." guitar solo.
No psychology needed. This is a no-brainer. there's yaoi...and there's real life. Yaoi -- Real life. Yaoi -- Real Life.
Rape culture exists, and people normalizing/justifying predatory behavior behind fiction has been done for ages. It comes from reality-based phenomena. No big.
Yes but then, take a quick look through the comments of yaois like this. Most readers are like "awwww so cute", when really... it's not. Rape should not, under any circumstances, considered as cute, or even normal, or no big deal.
I think my sarcasm was lost and should have been clearer. Rape is a big deal. The previous post was egregiously conflating their yaoi consumption with straw arguments.
Okay guys I know, yaoi's plot isn't always fucking intelligent nor realistic.
BUT THIS??????? WHAT THE HELL
It makes something as FUCKING SERIOUS as rape look as if it's no big deal ! "Oh crap you fucked with me while I was unconscious, without assumptions about my hypothetical will to" IT'S PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THAT KIND OF FUCKED UP STORIES THAT RAPE IS SEEN AS SOMETHING NORMAL. The fuck, what. the. fuck.
Yaoi, I'm sorry, but today you've disgusted me