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Anonymous Coward · 9d

This may sound weird sorry. But I wanted to ask as u have amab on ur bio. Do u think yaoi is heteronormative or transmisogynistic? I was reading the Bara page on vndb (https://vndb.org/g1170) and Idk, bcz i get what people mean when they say yaoi is heteronormative (opinion that is very prevalent on transfeminist circles) but as someone that also read bara I think the process of feminization in the bottom also exist, so is idk. So I want to know ur opinion!

this is obviously the anon who spams me with twitter bullshit but since this is an actual question rather than bot spam I'll answer in good faith.

Most - not all - yaoi is in fact heteronormative. My question to you is, so what? Most things are, it is an heteronormative world, many gay men - and I mean many - have desires which could be described as such. The "feminization of the bottom" happens frequently in real life gay sex, I know, crazy, it's almost like our desires are shaped by our environment or something. These "transfeminist circles" you speak of are coping hardcore if they believe they harbor no heternormative desires, I'd say at best repressing something, and if not then they are delusional in thinking it grants them some sort of moral superiority.

And yes, bara also is full of feminizing imagery, so is real life gay sex, wow, crazy. Have you or these transfeminists ever gone to a gay bar, have they never seen how they talk dirty or fuck? Good lord.

I'm sorry anon but the reality is this: ancient men who were were equals and gay for each other mostly kept to frottage because the matter of fact is that there has not been equality in penetration since the neolithic, and potentially there never was. There is always going to be - in a general manner - "feminization of the bottom". "Transfeminists" can cope and seethe about this all they want.

As for it being transmisogynistic... what? How could it be, trans women don't factor in it at all, nor do opinions on them, this question alone told me you're that terminally hobbyless anon because it is such a terminally-online-discourse-poisoned question to ask. Yes, it can be heteronormative - who cares, so are most things, yaoi is merely a reflection of desires - and no, it is not transmisogynistic (???). Asking me if yaoi is transmisogynistic makes as much sense as asking me if Homeric epic is transmisogynistic.

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