Ur so right, its the biggest issues with the genres, for gay men who already go through hell its a disservice to boil their identity and struggles to a literary porn genre that never tries to really address them as people, the one gray area i see is that many BL/yaoi explore gay men in relationships but theyre not really..men? If that makes sense, sometimes the genre feels like a androgynous caricature to project onto rather than a real depiction at all, but thats not always the case, plus theres plenty of homophobic/fetishizing readers so obviously it has major problems
In my opinion its especially bad when they try to excuse said problematic things in fiction "its not rape if..." "its not fetishizing if..." "its not abuse..." bc that is normalizing the behavior and how can they recognize that behavior irl if they genuinely believe its not bad?
Ive been here since like 2018/2019 but i never paid attention to things that went down here, but i did outside the website hahah
Damn u were in the trenches LMAO
Lmaoooooo real asf
Out of curiosity, are there any female omega verse?(Where they aren't Alfas )
Cause I was thinking the whole omega verse genre is dumb asf, because it's literally just about what women go through, and ppl wanting to see men in those positions but then giving them everything a woman does have and goes through except for the flat chest + privates. (Which doesn't even make SENSE because how else are you going to breastfeed+ birth the damn child. You just want women with extra steps)
Like, the sexism, the danger of SA, the social stigma, literally getting pregnant, heats, scents- they're all based ok what real women go through.
So the point of the genre is to see "men" go through that.
That would mean any reason for there to be a female omega verse story pretty meaningless cause literally just put that story irl and it would have the same effect. But idk there are all kinds of stories out there so I'm checking