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Every single person has the right to express themselves, but I honestly think there's a sort of demonization on going towards "cishet white women and men that read BL" as if they automatically fetishize them just because they're put in this category. I'm a non-binary, asexual, biromantic with homoromatic tendencies, mentally and physically ill person, if it's necessary to label myself in order to give out my opinion. I also read BL just as I read josei or some spare GL.
To read BL, while being who you are whatever category you're part of, doesn't make you automatically someone who fetishizes gays. What matters the most of to differentiate between reality and fiction, which means that yes you can read BL, but no you can't apply it to life. You can't go around asking private questions to real gay people, because that's just disrespectful.
Fiction isn't always equal to reality. If you can't differentiate between fiction and reality, it's your own fault and you have to fix it by becoming aware of it. Let's make an example. I can find Sangwoo interesting as on a psychological level because he's a character, he doesn't exist, and because Killing Stalking is fictional, but this doesn't mean I support Ted Bundy. It's an entirely different thing. It can't be compared, because that would be just madness.
I also think that you can find interesting problematic characters or couples, as long as you comprehend the fact that the dynamics/attitudes are unhealthy if reproduced in real life. To find "interesting" doesn't mean to excuse the wrongdoings, it's actually the contrary. It means you truly understand how deeply rooted the issue is, but since it's fictional you're allowed to find something or someone simply interesting perhaps on a psychological level to you. It doesn't mean you have to be guilt-tripped for it.
I agree with you 100% on this. I think people forget that the majority of media we consume is all a lie, despite it being based off of reality, because what isn't? There is nothing we can create that isn't something based off of reality since it was created by humans after all.
It's completely possible to consume this media and understand that it i......
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09 01,2021