Yeah one of the tags is seinen which means the story is made to target young adults men. Gross.
on a website with 10 times as much yaoi as there is yuri, almost all made for women, by women, the double standard of finding male created yuri as gross is ridiculous.
Nobody thinks yuri made by men are gross, AS LONG as the yuris themselves aren't gross and fetishizing; for example, Otherside Picnic, Adachi and Shimamura, Sasameki Koto were all written by men and they're amazing.
This one, however, definitely is gross and it's quite obvious it wasn't made/written with women in mind. That's all.
that's fine, everyone likes different things.
there is nothing wrong with someone making yuri made by and for men, even if it is sexual and fetishizing, if that's what they like.
just like there is nothing wrong with women making yaoi made by and for women, even ones that are fetishizing gay men.
the problem is that there is a double standard where stuff targeting a male audience is treated much more negatively, while the opposite is not the case.
everyone should read or not read what they like, it doesn't effect you if someone makes something you don't like.
i dont think there is a double standard for men yuri authors tbh, and even if there was one its probably for good bc i mean literally the entire lesbian genre in any media itself is so geared towards men rather than for woman.
And rather than creating a lesbian story as meaningful/deep its at many times only surface level or straight up insulting and done to fetishize lesbians for its intended main audience (men).
so yeah idk i think that men who write yuri stories should have a double standard (but they dont)- held to them bc at the end of the day if they write a story purely for the fetishization of lesbians it just feeds into how their audience perceives actual lesbians.
why is it any different for women writing yaoi? it is almost all geared towards women. and there is 10 times as much yaoi being made as there is yuri.
my point isn't to criticize what people are making, it's to say that it is wrong to pick out what you personally don't like and and go post on the pages for it just to insult it.
also while it's certainly true that a lot of yuri is made to be basically porn, in my experience it actually draws more men into discovering more serious yuri stuff that they may not have ever pursued otherwise. I think the fact the genre is growing rapidly and becoming much more mainstream shows that to be the case.
a double standard is just unfair and treats people poorly for their individual preferences and just turns people away, and causes division more than anything. all you're accomplishing is making people feel like creeps for engaging with LGBT content, further stigmatizing it.
why should a man feel bad for reading a smutty yuri when women are quite openly and mainstream reading books about fucking monsters? lol
Readable so far, but it's obviously written by a man for men, oh well!