yes! and ever time i say anything about people come for my head screaming i'm a hater, i'm a yaoi reader since 2008 so i have read a lot, i mean A LOT, i'm happy it's getting better but i still call out to those behavior and i still comment my opinion even with people saying ever single bad thing to me after lol
Yes exactly and I think your view changes after you grow up. I loved reading Yaoi and didn't mind the rape when I was younger and now that im older, hell im an adult, I can't find myself enjoying it just because I feel like I've read TOO much of it and I dont think that it's healthy. I'm glad the times are changing though, that's why its great more people are speaking up about these issues (like us), nobody should silence these people speaking up because without them rape would be an ongoing trope in Yaoi media.
yes! let's be strong and don't mind those people, maybe someday they will grow old and realize how toxic this trope is ^^
I don't think a lot of you understand how media and literature can affect the way people think & approach certain topics. Y'all can speak about separating fiction from reality but in reality these things do in fact affect you whether you realise it or not. Normalising, glamorising and romanticising rape in these yaoi mangas (when its not needed) desensitises you from the serious topic of rape. How do y'all think dictatorships in history influenced their citizens? Propaganda was a very powerful weapon that influenced the masses. They used communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts in order to encourage a particular group. I'm not saying these yaoi mangas are propaganda im not addressing the blatant normalisation of rape in Japanese media. Lets also not talk about the Japanese legal age of consent too.