Mini rant incoming

Toraseishin January 14, 2020 7:16 pm

It was good. Extremely cliché from start to finish, but still good.

HOWEVER...
I've become beyond tired of the extremely common plot-point used in many yaoi stories where one party pushes the other away, discarding their own feelings and making decisions for the other party because they SOMEHOW think that the other would be happier making a family with a wife and kids and having a "normal" and "ideal" life that is acceptable to a large portion of society.

Yes - because forcing a gay man away from his beloved and telling him to live a lie for the rest of his life because "what other people think about you is more important than your own feelings and self worth!" is TOTALLY going to make him happy.
GTF outta here. His ideal life is being authentic with the one he loves, idiot -__- *facepalm*

Responses
    Ai-hime January 14, 2020 10:48 am

    IKR. Like, what would he do if they really do break up and then afterwards, Takamine-sensei really did find himself a good girl or (because we're talking yaoi) a better man? Or something like that. And I think it would be double the damage if it was a another man cause the point of them breaking up was so that Takamine would have an "ideal happy future" and then, in the end, he still couldn't be "normal". Uwaa, thinking about it now, that would have been really satisfying to read in my opinion. Hehe... I wonder, is there a manga like that somewhere?

    P.S.: Sorry for adding on the rant but I totally agree with you.

    Kirika42 February 16, 2020 11:09 pm

    Yeeeeeesssss!!!! It’s so aggravating!!