I don't care about the rape trope much, I personally find it a lazy way to advance the plot as a writer myself but people are right, it is just fiction. At the end of the day it's a story, it's not deep, people will read what they like.
i don't condone rape and i get extremely uncomfortable when reading it. i also don't like the fetishization of gay men in yaoi which allows this. kinda weird, if you ask me.
I honestly wanna know this too. I've been reading bl for years now but fell out of reading manga until I turned 21. As I started reading manga again I got back into bl and realized how many bl stories have the "rape to lovers", "sexual harassment", "blackmail", and "abusive boyfriend being excused as protective" tropes and it fucking kills me. I of......
There are a few problems I have with yaoi and how it present LGBT community, but nonetheless I still like it. One of the biggest problems are the roles during sex scenes in yaoi. I've read maybe 2 or 3 yaoi mangas that characters were versatile and not exclusively top or bottom (I read a lot, you can check on my profile). I myself am versatile, my......
People fine with rape in yaoi = hypocrites?