Samuel's Things

hey! speaking as a queer person the issue with yaoi is the rampant fetishization of gay people and queer issues. rape, pedophilia and incest is uncomfortably common in this genre. i don't have an inherent issue with people reading/consuming it but i am always wary when a young person or a straight/cis person tells me they're really in to it. more o......   reply

speakin as a queer person there's not an inherent issue with reading yaoi, it's more that a lot of what is considered yaoi romanticises rape, pedophilia, incest etc etc and fetishizes gay people. there's plenty of nuanced explanations about online as to why a lot of "fujoshi culture" is harmful and kinda icky but generally i think it's fine as long......   1 reply

being trans essentially means that your sex (so, what you are biologically speaking/what you were born as) is not what you identify as. to answer your questions bit by bit: - the part you mentioned about people born with both sexual organs - this is called being intersex, and is not considered being transgender. in very very simple terms, it is w......   2 reply