Thoughts on Fujoshis, Yaoi, and Fetishization?

Everyone has such nice, varied, and interesting views on this. I love it, and agree with most of ya'll. So cool to see everyone articulate their thoughts on this!!   reply

hm, I have always think about this, mainly because people don't see it normal or okay to read yaoi or bl and be open about it, why? because a lot of people (and I think globally) have put this two words together like it's a fact. Fetish is when "you like something a little too much", or "an obssesive thinking/actions about something", or "something......   reply

my thought about yaoi is just a genre. it's like you reading hentai but its gay. and the genre there is fine, but sometimes you tend to find some questionable things. and one time I read those extreme genre with a questionable fetish I just tought "What! you masturbate to this?! just what wrong with you people?!" but yeah.. sometimes people mind ......   2 reply

Well if you think about it doing anything that has to do with fetishes it can go to far but ignoring the fact that people say that it make them uncomfortable and people continue to be disgusting, Like if a person that is a fujoshi was apart of the lgbtq community and they meet a fujoshi and it makes them uncomfortable they would ask that person to ......   reply

I agree with a lot of comments here that as long as the person can tell the fiction from reality, well do your thing. But what I really find disturbing is people shipping people in real life and branding them as the 'uke' or 'seme'...Or when someone (and I have friends like that) brand random people "Oh, he is totally gay." "Oh my, he looks gay." l......   reply

It's a pretty controversial topic tbh. I feel like a lot of Yaoi/Yuri are basically porn/borderline porn at this point (where the plot is basically nonexistent). Not that I am trying to kinkshame anyone in any way but there isn't much difference to going on pornhub and watching your favourite fetishes. There is nothing wrong with that obviously but......   reply

I've been reading yaoi for over a decade. I've never really fetishize it (probably because I'm Bisexual. I don't care if it Straight or Gay just as long as it captures my attention and gives my butterfiles I'm good. But there are some people who fetishize gay relationship but don't support gay rights IRL and it's cringey to me   1 reply