I don't think being nerdy or a little awkward means you're socially inept
Oh, totally true, they’re completely different things. I kind of misinterpreted/ gave an offtopic answer to your message, my bad, heheheh.
Is fujo stuff generally representative of female sexuality, or is that some sort of an aberration?
I think it can be.
I think the main appeal of shipping and more specifically yaoi ships is that it’s a women-free female space, paradoxically. As in, it’s written with women in mind but it doesn’t contain women. Sex and relationships can be daunting and scary, but fujo ships are a space to safely explore that and navigate those emotions. It’s the touchy feely romance without risking getting involved and hurt.
Oftentimes yaoi and fujo fanfic and whatnot is VERY degenerate, because they find men hot and want them to have creepy gay butt sex, but I’d argue that’s not true for every fujoshi.
Chalking all fujoshis up to a fetish oversimplifies it, because sometimes it’s genuinely just very typical girly romance stuff. I would say it in this case it absolutely represents female sexuality.
Men in gay fanfiction almost never act ”like men”; you could swap them with a woman and a man or even two women, and nothing would change, because what they find appealing about it isn’t the gay part, it’s the romance and the feelings. The male characters are a vehicle to explore that, and they allow doing so from a completely outside perspective.
If men were the sole appeal of yaoi, there wouldn’t be so many lesbians that are into it.
Furthermore, shows don’t often have many female characters or female characters that are involved as deeply with the male characters. So to explore those dynamics, sometimes women will just the two guys instead, and cram the romance they want to see into whatever deep friendship the characters have, or something.
obviously, it’s all part of a fantasy because it’s fiction. It’s impossible and unrealistic.
To actually have a romantic relationship in real life you have to get involved, you can’t be a passive observer. Unless you are a cuck (LOLFAG!)
Moving on from the gay porn questions: how does female friendship work? Men, for example, are usually friends based off of compatible talents and sense of purpose towards which they collaborate (whether that be an intellectual, creative, or other pursuit). What do women do together?
Is that not how female friendships work? That’s exactly how my own female friendship work; I like befriending people I have things in common with, whether that’s hobbies or interests, a somewhat similar (or if not, compatible) outlook on life, a shared goal… Not all of these have to be met at the same time, obviously.
Of course, not all friends are equal because you can befriend people from different contexts in different levels; what ties me to my best friends isn’t what ties me to friends at work, and whatever.
Personally what I do together with my female friends depends on the friend, but what do women NOT do together? I think that’s an odd question, I think anything can be done; when you are close friends with someone, you can have fun doing anything.
With my best friend, for example, we always have a set date beforehand because we don’t get to see each other very often anymore due to different schedules. We love cinema, so we will usually go to watch a movie if a good one is available; while we are together we will have a normal conversation; we will joke and update each other on our lives; how we’ve been feeling, wether anything important has happened, shows, happenings… Or you can hang out to do something together like a sport or a hobby, or go shopping, or to a concert. Sometimes you don’t need to do anything at all, not even talk. Me and my best friend go on holidays together and during those times where we are basically hanging out 24/7 there’s a lot of time spent not talking; just being together is enough. Maybe she reads while I draw, or we are both taking a nap, or something.
I act pretty much the same around my female and male friends, I think. And if I do act differently it’s because it’s someone I’m less close to, not because it’s a man or a woman.
Would you agree that it's true that men are more world-oriented, whereas women are more person-oriented?
Well, what does world-oriented mean? Im not asking in bad faith, promise. The world is full of people. So it would follow that someone world oriented would have to take people into account.
And isn’t usually men the ones that are said to be more “people-oriented” because that has to do with goals? while women are said to be more emotional?
I don’t know, I think I lack life experience to answer. But, I’m hesitant to say that women are less “world-oriented” or less “people- oriented” or less “goal-oriented” than men. All the women I know have goals and want to get to know the world. I consider myself goal oriented. And I’ve met men were neither goal nor people oriented.
if what you mean is that if women value connections more than other aspects of life, well, I would say that is true for a lot of us. I would certainly say social connections are one thing I hold in a very high regard, although it’s not what I find the MOST important. But I think that’s something very universal, humans are social creatures. It’s foolish to ignore that or to pretend that it’s something irrational and emotional, especially considering that a lot of goals are possible through having connections and being social.
and honestly I don’t know if we value social ties MORE than men do, because I’m not a man. what do male kiwis think?
I would say any differences could be chalked up to differences in culture rather than innate differences; valuing social ties is a universal value, but it will be viewed somewhat differently across each culture, not only cultures of countries but the culture of men and women, which we acquire through our socialization. How much of said culture lies in genuine biological differences, I don’t know.
What is it like when you're not in Estrus, when the tides are low or however that works
again, I would say this varies woman to woman. I never feel any different or any more or less emotional. I do notice I feel more physically sluggish and weak during Luteal phase, but that’s BEFORE the period, nor during.
Basically: have you run into the roadblock of men being gay.
Yes. Sometimes Men are sometimes unironical fags because they are phallocentric, so much so that it is homoerotic.
but, I think what you describe happens to us women, too. Nobody can be blamed for it. Neither guys nor Chicks.
Though we talk about attraction and love all the time and we make and consume art about it very frequently, it’s rare to actually share profound conversations around it, so it’s always shocking to realise that it’s not something we all experience in the same manner. I think we women also find very shocking how differently men act and the things THEY feel, so much so that it’s hard to fully comprehend, sometimes.