Bishonen fangirls are gay!

[TheReapersWife]

Condiments??? What are you talkin' about, dude? Labeling others is a natural mental system to help us identify and refer to certain groups of people who share certain qualities. If I say an African American is black, I'm not insulting him, I'm stating an indesputable fact. When stating opinions, labels become subjective and are relative to those who use them. You may label certain people differently than I do. But you do it. You have to. It would take too much time and energy to draw out your thoughts to mentally refer to everyone individually. Grouping them together by their similarities is more convenient. Jobs are labels. Genders are labels. Etc.

 

[sunandshadow]

I'm a yaoi fangirl. It's simple really: like the concept that hetero men like watching two lesbians. I am not attracted to women. So in watching yaoi, I can get arousal and enjoyment out of watching both partners.

I don't understand your assertion that we could be gay men in women's bodies. That doesn't make sense. Why do I need to desire to BE a man to like yaoi? And what does lesbian have to do with it?

I'm not actually asserting that, I just thought it was an amusing idea. If one was going to construct such an argument, you would probably want to start by saying that yaoi fans prefer to see romances and erotica with no female characters, and especially people who write yaoi prefer to fantasize that they are a male seducing another male, they may ever be disgusted by descriptions of themselves or any other females having sex. The parallel case would also apply to men who like lesbians.

But, I don't think it would be a very solid argument, because presumably some or even most yaoi and yuri fans like straight romance and porn also.

 

[innocentpassion]

Straight women can like yaoi/gay porn, even if it involves one of the boys dressing up to a ridiculous extent.