all of this! I'm sooooo tired of writers acting like rape victims end up "enjoying" assault because they have "feelings" for the perpetrator!
On one hand yeah its wonderful that there are gay romance stories, like alpt of them being made. They show that their kind of love is just as normal as everyone else. I'm talking about the happier fluffy stories. But the downside is that these authors make gay men out to be predators ready to rape if either they get rejected, misunderstand and get jealous, or just straight up want to hurt the person. And to top it all off they almost always get away with it. At best they get rejected, or they lose a fucking job or some stupid shit. I can count on one hand the amount of times a rapist faced true consequences. Adding to that the victims just let it slide sometimes cause you know feelings. I do like reading bl, but it feels alot like it's hard to read it at the same time
agree with all of that
My least favorite thing about stories and characters and writers like this, it’s not even just the constant SA, it’s the fact that these writers hate writing bottoms that actually at least attempt to defend themselves. I don’t mean saying no and stop 1000 times, or furrowing your eyebrow, or any of that. They won’t kick, punch, push, bite, anything to actually make it clear and pain as day that the character doesn’t want to just roll over and take it. WTF do you mean he asks to JUST be friends after a brutal assault??? WHY THE FUCK ISNT HE CUSSING HIM OUT?? WHY ISNT HE RUNNING AWAY THE FIRST CHANCE HE GETS??? Why does he refuse to let him know just how fucking shitty he is for doing that?? So now the fuckass ML gets to sit there and pretend that he didn’t just brutally r@pe the MC and they’re still just gonna go about their day. I’m just so sick of yaoi artist writing their bottoms as mentally and physically weak men who can’t defend themselves let alone stand up for themselves, because even though it’s very clearly and obviously SA, completely and utterly unredeemable, and actually one of the worst fucking things you can do to someone, they still want to have a cop out of why this dude will remain the main love interest because the MC doesn’t treat the situation as it is. Because if the MC DID actually do literally anything to show that he’s fighting against what’s happening besides crying and saying no and cumming a million times (then letting him KEEP TOUCHING him afterwards), then they wouldn’t be able to be like “oooo my toxic ml is soooo sexy and complicated” like NO! HES AN ABUSIVE PREDATOR?!??! Even if he wouldn’t be able to overpower him, biting his fingers when he stuck them in his mouth, punching him, saying anything during or after that alludes to “Hey! You’re a disgusting piece of shit! I fucking hate you! You’re a sick rapist! Get the fuck out! Don’t fucking touch me! I can’t even stand to look at you, you disgusting pig! I’ll never fucking forgive you for this!” ANY OF THAT COULD’VE SUFFICED. But nah, can’t wait to brush this off and pretend it’s okay because “ooo big dick hit my prostate so good! Even though I’m the equivalent of a mentally weak sex doll, this relationship will surely work out in the end :D”