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this take is lacking in materialist analysis. as obnoxious as a certain brand of fujo/yaoi-obsessed person is, making this comparison and saying they're the same misses how sexuality (as in, sexual behavior/expression and interests) differs between them. considering which group has mass culture and exploitative industries catering to them and the o......   reply

more stories need to explicitly include the use of lube. provoking an emotional response or making the reader curious about the conclusion does not actually make a story well-written. it's okay and not unreasonable or even entitled to challenge and question the premises and assumptions of a story. the reader does not have to just passively accept......   5 reply

I broadly agree with the complaint here, but this title is very funny. XD "becoming" like hetslop? it was hetslop the whole time... edit: here's some assorted thoughts on omegaverse if you haven't read this already https://www.mangago.me/thing/about/927841/   1 reply

there need to be more abortions in omegaverse stories. individuals and couples who decide to not have children, or even just put it off for a while instead of going with the flow for every oops!baby. let's all take birth control and use contraceptives, together! evidently a bunch of people are into omegaverse for babies and mpreg, but not me! gimme......   2 reply

I don't think this question is particularly clear on its point, so I'll say that it depends. everyone is subject to exploitation, it's just a question of what type of exploitation and to what degree. men suffer under patriarchy, because there is hierarchy among men that is acceptable to most men because belonging to the class of men still places t......   2 reply

something, something under patriarchy the only real kind of sex is penetrative, which indicates dominance and the penetrator asserting their agency over the person being penetrated -> sexual contact and aggression must involve a penis to be valid, so men (the only ones assumed to have and use penises) can dominate women, but a woman can never do th......   2 reply

there's bad dragon if you really want to shake things up ╮(￣▽￣)╭   reply

you're thinking at too small of a scale. racism and homophobia are more than just what goes on between individuals or even the culture of a society. individual/group level racism and anti-lgbt+ sentiment/bigotry can be mindsets and feelings at that level but those are smaller parts of larger systems of power and control that facilitate using and ab......   1 reply

controlling, jealous, and obsessive behaviors that never seem to have lasting consequences after "redemption" for the characters who have them. in general, if a character is shown to not respect their partner/love interest as an independent, autonomous person, I have no reason to believe that they'll respect boundaries and whatnot even if they have......   reply

maybe the "I'm your slave" line isn't so bad in context, but even the choice of setting, time period, and backgrounds + the synopsis is grounds for scrutiny and wariness for people who are more directly affected by that history, or just aware of the kinds of narratives surrounding this point in history. anything's possible, so maybe this creator wi......   reply

i feel like this is pointing out a pond, or lake if i'm being generous, and ignoring a whole ocean. how many twink tops are there even for this to be a thing worth singling out? there's a fair observation/complaint about ridiculously exaggerated physical differences between characters here, but that's true across the board for like 80% of BL couple......   reply

what's obnoxious to me about most omegaverse is how the dire straits of omegas in those stories reflect the status of women IRL, and their oppression is explicitly naturalized and justified with their biological functions in those stories in ways that aren't necessarily true IRL. biology can be quite surprising! things don't always function like we......   4 reply

saying "humans are parasites" as if the actual problem here isn't the extraction, exploitation and overconsumption driven by industry to appease capitalist bottom lines and not just humans existing. your pointing out the recoveries brought on by the lowered economic activity during "lockdowns" only highlights that fact, since it's not like people d......   1 reply

you can't always stop yourself from worrying about how other people perceive you, especially when it's relevant to your general well-being and safety, but you can refocus your thoughts and energy. self-actualize! who do you want to be in the world, and how do you get there? you know who you are better than the people who make assumptions (and if yo......   1 reply

because tops are the Ultimate Men and to be the Men of all men, they must be Impenetrable. they don't get their buttholes drawn so nobody gets any ideas...   reply

physical proportions have been out of whack for many manhwa artists for quite some time. maybe they're just catering to the hyper fetishists or whatever it's called when people are into ridiculously/unrealistically oversized boobs and genitals.   1 reply

it really depends. people love to trot out the "fiction doesn't affect reality" line, but it's really more complicated than saying "no real humans were harmed, so everything goes in fiction". once you're past childhood, it's not a straightforward monkey-see-monkey-do effect where people blindly repeat or mimic what they see in media. but that does......   reply

I've never understood this particular line of attack. in the absence of a rating or commentary, something being on an "already read" list doesn't mean anything. it just means that they read it. that's not my issue with questionable stuff in stories, especially when it's being pirated. I'll often read stuff out of curiosity, but that doesn't mean I ......   reply

I'm surprised those teams are operating under that model because I thought that charging for translation was the one big no-no for fan-translations. for years, I'd see all those disclaimers on the credit pages of manga or tucked in somewhere in anime saying "if you paid for this, you've been ripped off". aside from how a person feels as a potential......   reply

explicit rape scenes can work in a story if the creator has the skill and conscientiousness for it (most don't). it's like that quote about satire requiring clarity of intent and execution. that said, some people always miss the point with their blinders... #－.－)   1 reply