To those who stopped reading BL, why?

although i DO like reading bl, i havent read it in a couple months. the sheer amount of problematic shit that is normalized in these stories are abnormal and lowkey toxic.. ive started to become more aware of how harmful it is as a younger reader and has decided to take a break for awhile. i do love my fellow fujoshis, HOWEVER, most of the communit......   3 reply

this is going to be long. I quite recently (literally, like a few days ago) have been reading close to no BL's and have decided it's probably not for me. Heres why *: I have never considered myself a fujo but started reading the BL genre ( and I want to specify when I say BL I specifically mean manhwas / mangas ) because as a person who has to de......   2 reply

everything the community: as a former fujo myself, some fujos, no, MOST fujos have flat out unacceptable takes and either excuse or actively support extremely problematic content within yaoi and when confronted about it delude themselves into thinking theyre under attack or some other nonsense and instead of having a thoughtful discussion about i......   2 reply

I didn’t really stop reading BL but I did cut off yaoi cause I got pretty uncomfortable with the whole fetishisation thing. I still like sounen ai tho.   reply

When I was younger I usually just read everything without really caring, it was more about the experience, but I started seeing a regular thing in almost every BL, r*pe, they treat the subject way too romantically, the top could do whatever he wanted and then apologized and everything was ok, it made me just so uncomfortable and disgusted I stopped......   reply

I slowly stopped reading yaoi. The only reason I started was because I was sick of shojo but honestly yaoi isn't much better. First of all we've got the fetishizing fan base and toxic shit such as the cloudy consent. The second reason is mostly because it feels disrespectful to the lgbtq community. Its disturbing to see the fetishization/romantic......   reply

i stopped reading yaoi 7 months ago and well, there's a lot of reasons. first of all, i wasn't even reading the sex scenes because it was kinda disturbing me even at the first, i was reading them because i was wondering about how will they end up. but the more i read yaoi, the more disgusted i get. i'm not saying that i hate lgbt or smth like that,......   reply

I am not interested in BL and read Paramour because I promised the Authors Brothers Without A Tomorrow I would. I did not know they only wrote BL before I said that but because I said I would I did.   reply

the community, first and foremost. to be frank, i'm a misogynist, and i try to avoid communities predominantely filled with women. that's actually the only reason   1 reply