“if you just try hard enough, then you’ll get it.”
“it’s just mind over matter, hun.”
“you’re crying just for that?”
“you should’ve tried harder.”
“Why are you crying? It’s already done.”
please don’t invalidate my feelings by pushing your ideals into me. you are totally not helping. reply
I did. I used to live in the countryside and I went to the capital for university. I was totally culture shocked at how lively and noisy the nightlife was, the pollution that came with it, and the blasting of sirens at three am like it was nothing kept me wide awake for the first six months in my dormitory. Also, the way people talked was so modern...... reply
Does it really generally fetishize gay men? I thoroughly understand that a lot of BL material portray sex heavily especially on the Yaoi genre. A more typical position as to why reading BL is bad is because it fetishizes gay men. Does it really fetishize them? Is the fandom that toxic? (I have a vague idea about this, but what I find problematic is the shipping of irl people as well as the disregard on the normalization of rape and dubcon.) Hence, Is reading BL bad?
I read BL and have been invested of it since 2017. Now, I've been curious if this interest of mine in reading BL is really healthy. I acknowledge that like other stories in the market (whether it be gay or straight), it is still just a fiction. So, I am curious if reading BL is really fetishizing gay men and if people should stop reading and making them in general. thanks.