hidden silly · 1mo
"the Chinese hate gay men" there needs to be a convo about the Hoyoverse fandom racist tendency to paint all Chinese people as homophobic piece of shits to gaslight people into believing that your gachaslop yaoi ships aren't "canon" because Xi Jinping is going to throw Dawei into the Huangpu river.
This behavior is actually pretty disgusting and I Wish people just dropped it, however sinophobia is so ingrained in people's mind that I guess it's impossible.
i feel like i've had the convo before, either among friends or publicly, about how much discussion around chinese media on here is limited to either tokenism, orientalism, or explicit sinophobia (i.e. any sort of narrative subtlety immediately identified as censorship + needing to validate one's own interpretations of text and symbolism with "my chinese/chinese-speaking friend said this so i'm right). but i'm also the mean fujo bully who is a fake lesbian and can only enjoy fictional women if men want to fuck them but also all the yaoi i don't like is actually yuri but also i'm a liar whenever i call a pairing i like yuri but also ALSO i'm biphobic if i don't pair certain women with men so. my plate is full at this point and people would rather be mad that i'm not using my words/knowledge to validate personal tastes lol
