Bl Tropes

The romance genre in general has used rape fantasy as an enduring trope forever. I don’t necessarily mind it. I understand actual rape in real life is horrible and rapists should die slow and painful deaths, but as a trope, I’m indifferent. As for pedophilia, what most people call out as “pedophilia” is actually ephebophilia. Pedophilia is......   2 reply

As a gay male it's so frustrating seeing those kind of tropes. It's bad enough that most BL manga is made for straight women and not actual gay men but now we're having to repeatedly see such tropes that (very clearly) paint homosexuals as predators and oversexualise homosexual relationships and gay people in general. (I accidentally replied to a c......   1 reply

Since no one has bothered to answer your question, I’ll throw in. Art and literature’s ultimate purpose is to illicit a response, whether good or bad to make people feel emotion and think. It should not be judged by morals of what you think is right and wrong. I enjoy all the “tropes” and by taking away the gender equality with having the s......   3 reply

I hate them, I hate them soo much for multiple reasons, and I'm only speaking for bl in this case because I don't read gl; 1) They propagate harmful stereotypes about the lgbt+ community. Things like the fetishization of pedophilia and incest reinforce homophobic tropes that in this case gay men are predators and will fall in love with anyone, inc......   3 reply

Themes concerning that, i do find it very interesting especially when it's a well-written plot. Some are not bad, some mediocre, and often piss poor when authors are blatantly romanticizing it but generally, I don't mind it since I know it's fiction and I'm all here for the story-telling. Few tropes I can agree that are morally wrong, but the human......   1 reply