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now do yuri
It’s all catgirls
“Gay men yaoi” as shown is known as “bara”.
Still a very accurate graphic.
Edited for clarity.
It’s not a contradiction, although I also thought that for a bit. I think with《“a [b]” c》, “a [b]” is describing the artists’ sexual orientation, not the subject of the drawing.
So that’s gay men’s depiction/conception of yaoi.
Yaoi is generally by women. That’s part of the definition.
When it looks like that second panel, it isn’t yaoi, it’s bara (at least in English).
Who says women can’t be gay men? Like Anne Rice, yaoi queen!
Afaik, Anne Rice was not trans. Many women identify with gay men in my experience. Her writing was very typical of women writing men.
Her writing doesn’t represent the bara-type content shown in the second panel of the post, and to that point, your counterpoint is to the graphic in the post rather than to me.
The picture in “gay mens yaoi” is characteristic of bara, for which there is already a term. I was just pointing that out. I wasn’t picking a fight.
Top Gun is probably the single gayest thing that the human race has ever created and straight men just think it’s the bee’s knees.
See also: Commando. And Red Heat. Honestly, straight men spent a lot of the 80s and 90s lusting after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rippling muscles.
Kumail Nanjiani was asked in an interview if he’s been getting more attention from women since bulking up. He said something along the lines of “it’s mostly been a lot of attention from straight guys too be honest.”
🎼Highway to the gayer zone🎶
Why does lesbian yaoi look like Death Note?
Hands are too small.
it’ll never cease to astound me how many people can look at their own art and go “yeah this is great, publish it for all to see”
It can still bring joy! Yaoi hands are great.
Wow, I hate this more than manhwa shoulders
Did I fucking miss something‽
Why is everyone just casually using this and other words I have never heard before? I feel like I’m having a stroke or developed a strange, new, and exotic aphasia!
Yaoi has been in semi common use for about 20 years I want to say, mostly in japan enthusiast circles.
You noticing it everywhere is pretty common for words you only just learned, it’s called the frequency illusion.
Yaoi is so unpopular compared to yuri, so i guess its fine if yaoi now has women. At least there will be more yaoi.
Interesting, I hear more about yaoi. Maybe I’m wrong though.
I imagine it depends a lot on the kinds of spaces you hang out in. I’d assume that yaoi was more popular than yuri in 2010s tumblr.
