Amber the Hedgehog
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- Aug 23, 2018
Western yaoi fangirls also used not have this issue. There was some crumbling about people making fun of them and that being really mean but beyond that they were comfortable being yaoi fan girls. It was dumb teen girl fun to deal with feeling funny about guys. You saw some girls that thought that real gay guys were better than straight boys because of this but overall girls were as self avare as horny teenagers could be about porn.Tbf most women in Japan who consume BL don't become Aidens since they acknowledge it's a fantasy and they don't *literally* self-insert for it. It's a weird complex of reasons why women are fans of BL, but it's very much idealized relationships FOR women to enjoy reading, which is why the dynamics between men in BL aren't often like actual gay men irl. It's also why they tend to fit the same body type of lithe feminine twinks, and I imagine western fujos take that self-insert fantasy to the extreme and thats why they want to look like those lithe femboys. The real gay men make manga with more muscular guys or fat bears slamming each other in the ass, and BL is mainly for the women wanting twinks and chaste hand-holding during lovemaking scenes with sparkles everywhere
(PL: one of my first internet friends who helped me study Japanese was a fujo in her twenties and thirties)
What changed? Mainly callout culture and progressive stack becoming big. Basically most fangirl environments started to get really picky about what was acceptable because they were highly overlapped with SJW groups. So in these environments straight white girls became the enemy number one because there was no straight white boys to harass. Some of the girls still couldn't care less and just continued having their silly sexy yaoi fun but significant amount was highly affected. These girls tend to be awkward and lonely in real life, this was their social circle and friends. Nobody wants be bottom chicken that everyone picks on but they felt unable to just walk away to be totally alone again. So that left them trying to please the unplesable. Unless they can become someone above criticism.