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First, I want to say that I am really sick of the stereotyped gay person being thrown into popular culture today. It's kind of demeaning when there isn't any purpose but to say "Hey, look, a gay person, we're edgy/open minded/accepting/wanting your money badly."

But I don't think it can get too popular. Saying it's getting too popular is just being elitist. If someone enjoys it, more power to them, and if a lot of people enjoy it, that means there's going to be more money flowing into the industry and more product for us to enjoy.

I never said it was a bad thing=P I've just noticed that alot of people are REALLY starting to get into it is all x3

And yes, I'm actually tired of ALL stereotypes for that matter x0

As a female I must say I love yaoi, but I also love het.

Yaoi is becoming too much, but it'll never stop being so.

Once again:

Elitists.

Yaoi doesn't make you a good person, and you don't have to be a good person to enjoy it. It's a genre. Saying that they aren't the right type of fan or they aren't what you would expect is like all those teenyboppers who get mad when their favorite band hits it big because they aren't in a special club anymore. Yaoi is bound to attract fans of all types, and they're welcome to like or dislike whatever they want.

I personally don't like het and I don't like shoujo ai much either, despite being a lesbian. Does this mean I am a bad fan or a bad person? Does it mean I am close-minded? No, it means I have personal preferences.

I don't think it's about elitism. I think it's about attitude. A lot of yaoi fans act like there is nothing better and woe to those who disagree. I think that the greatest anime ever created was Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'm sure not everyone here agrees with me, but the difference is that I don't freak out and tell people that they're ignorant and wrong for disagreeing with me. To each their own right?

That's the crux of matter. Attitude and lack of respect. A lot of yaoi fangirls treat het, shoujo ai, and even non-anime slash like it's gross and horrible for existing. Considering we are in a fandom that carries a belief that is despised by a huge portion of the world, you'd think yaoi fangirls wouldn't act in the same intolerant, oppressive manner. So, for example, if they were respectuful, in a thread talking about slash in Western TV shows, you wouldn't find someone posting something like "real boys are icky" just like you won't find me in a Gravitation thread going "Gravi sux".

I like Yaoi and Yuri, I accept people who in real life are gay/lesbians. I am bi myself.

I try to be opened minded about other things as well. As someone who has been made fun of her whole life, even though it did a lot of negative things to me some I am still recovering from, one good thing I think it did is it helped me be a more tolerant person. Wouldn't it be so hypocrtical fro me to make fun or critice things in the same way that I was made fun of and criticized all my life?

I know for sure I liked Yaoi first, but I know I didn't fpr a second turn away the other side of the coin, yuri.

I think you completely missed the point on that one. The basic gist of it is "How can people be all over yaoi and still sit there and completely reject yuri?" in other words "How can yaoi fans be so damn close minded?" This being a yaoi board, it's the perfect place to ask yaoi fans about the outlook of other yaoi fans.