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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:01 pm
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This is more directed towards the straight girls in this genre, but I guess anyone could answer. In the Rant and Rave subforum someone posted a thread about finding a forum where a group of boys posted horrible comments about girls who like yaoi. One boy in particular said:
Quote: Oh god, you want bad, my "first" (if ya know what I mean kekekekeke) was a yaoi fangirl. Scary thing was that she seemed totally normal. Met her after class, was banging her 45 minutes later. So, we start going out, and a few days after meeting, we're near Barnes&Noble and decide to go in. Imagine my shock when she heads straight for the manga section, and starts grabbing yaoi volumes! That was a real facepalm there... Do you ever feel guilty or weird about liking yaoi? Do you ever regret getting into it? I've been looking through the other threads and I noticed that a few of the titles say things like "Are we perverts?" or "Have you ever been caught?" or "Were you ever against yaoi?" Before I got into the fandom I thought yaoi was scary, like porn or talking to a stranger in IM. It felt like something you would hide, never let anyone know you were reading/watching, because it was embarassing and weird. Good little girls don't look at perverted things. And then I did get into it and I was ashamed. I hid it and felt embarassed over it and lied about it. And that's stupid. It's just an interest. Why freak out? The first time I told anyone, it was my best friend, and she looked at me like I had just told her I was a cannibal. My sister has noticed a few times, and she calls me weird and scrunches up her nose whenever she sees me reading anything now. I went to see Brokeback with my mom and when we got home, I said in an offhandish way the guys in the movie were cute together, and my dad yelled at me and told me never to say anything like that again. Even now it makes me sick to my stomach sometimes, just thinking about how I've given everyone a reason to discriminate against me... and I'm not even gay. I can't imagine what it must be like to be really homosexual. Reading about it doesn't make you understand, truely. We can never understand. So, do you ever regret it? Or does it give you the opposite feeling -- pride, knowing you're this much more open minded than the people who knock it? surprised
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:31 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:33 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:55 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:51 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:41 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:28 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:08 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:47 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:08 am
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I've never regretted my yaoi and slash hobby. I have made some of the most awesome friends through it. Hell, I just moved across the damn country to live with friends I made in the yaoi fandom! Without it, I'd have a lot less friends, let me tell you!
I'm pretty quiet about my interest except with people who either enjoy it or at least know what it is. I love squeeing with friends. I visited Lady Nox and she just stands around on the subway talking about buttsex xd I am not even kidding, she is not embarrassed at all. Other people blush and move away.
Anyway, I didn't bother telling my family, but eventually they found out through various ways and it was completely not a big deal for them, which is cool. I didn't have any drama about it and I can talk about it with my brother or my cousin, though neither of them cares for the genre, they're cool with some fangirling on my part sweatdrop
So yes, I have gotten too much fun and awesome benefits from my involvement in the yaoi fandom to ever be ashamed of it. Not to mention that I'm older than most of the people who are like "Ew yaoi is yucky!" So their opinions don't phase me at all. Honestly, older, more mature folks don't deal with it that way. If someone has a problem with it, that's their problem, not mine. I'm not going to let anybody make me feel bad about something I love. So there! twisted
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:14 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:25 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:34 am
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Yeah. I regret it. I feel like someone of my standards shouldn't be into something like boy love. I mean, I'm a good student, in fact a very good one, and a good child. But, it's just like you were saying, "Good little girls don't look at perverted things." At least, they aren't supposed to. It bothers me. If anyone knew I liked boy love, they'd look at me as a completely different person. [ Obviously I'm just talking about the majority of people, some people might be fine with it. ] It's like telling someone I don't go to church. Automatically they see me in a completely different light, forgetting the fact that they know me as a person that has very strong morals of her own. The only thing that keeps me okay with the fact, is that I view porn and Yaoi/Boys Love as two very different things. To me porn is just that - porn. But, boy love has more depth. It's art, it has a story, it has feelings.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:07 am
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