Thank you(づ￣ ³￣)づ
It really is quite problematic how often you see foreign mainly Eurocentric centered and occasional Arab cultures be fetishized for their hyper masculinity and perpetuate the stereotype of fully ethnic Asian men as being emasculated and submissive. Ethnically mixed Asian people defaulting to Eurocentric features and “exotic” ambiguity. It’s so bizarre seeing from Asian women themselves who are also subjected to this but that’s society’s prejudices for you.
As an Asian I was brainwashed for years by this eurocentric, Orientalism or Hollywood propaganda.
But thanks to my growing critical thinking and the rise of educational social progressive videos in Youtube I started abandon these toxic norms.
Why are shitty rich white guys the only desirable options for us?????
By the way the Arabs/Persian Sheiks in Harlequin novels or any webtoons look too caucasian.
I'm very agree with you. It's a characteristic that's very often seen in BL/Yaoi to the point where most of the BL ressemble to each other nowadays. But let's not forget that even when the characters aren't europeens they rarely look Asians anyways (lol). Though this looks like it's a thing specific to Shojos and BL since it's a world of girl fantasies; we get to see less of this in Shonen and Seinen genres where the characters look more Asians. I think one of the reasons why they (Asians women authors) are doing this is because there is this attraction, phantasm they have for (the men of) other different cultures, their differences, and for obvious reasons like the anatomy, simply... While, yeah, the Uke who's Asians is always smaller, delicate and defenseless...
(￣へ￣）This doesn't help of the situation of Asian men who already suffer from a harsh image.
I'm agree with you both, I meant ^^
I totally agreed... wanted to say this for long time but held it back because people on here will just attack you fir your honest opinion. This the same reason I have issues with mixed race yaoi. Why is the Asian guy always the uke with these relationships??
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In chapter 9 it is shown that the Uke has no backbones or tooth to stand up for himself against anyone. Without the blonde seme he seems such a pushover and so helpless.
In chapter 8 there is a paparazzi/stalker who will very likely harm the UKE because he is connected to the Seme..
I ve seen it many times before.
It is so frustrating to see him like this....
Again this Yaoi trope: Uke suffers as doormat, Seme heroically saves him.
I really like the artstyle but I am disappointed and frustrated about the cliche characterization of the Uke.
Maybe I am reading too much into it but:
An Asian subservient demure bottom and the blonde white shiny looking heroic Top...