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  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    theyre stories written by straight women, for straight women, nice try tho! I actually dont feel great about hets writing steamy erotic novels about le gays.

    Same! Bad vibes! No different from straight men being like awooga about lesbians.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      If I recall correctly, one of the big reasons yaoi became so popular with women in Japan was because they felt gay relationships, or at least the sorts of fictionalised gay relationships featured in manga etc, were free of the rigid gender roles in more traditional romantic stories and Japanese society in general