Fujos will take literally any male rival duo and ship them as gay lovers. It's a waste of time to think about shippers, porn, or fan theories and how that reflects on the actual work because if you did every character would be gay.
Fujos will take literally any male rival duo and ship them as gay lovers. It's a waste of time to think about shippers, porn, or fan theories and how that reflects on the actual work because if you did, every character would be gay.
Manga is only huge in the west because it easily filled in a power vacuum roughly the same time comics/western graphic novels collapsed due to shoving in woke identity politics and feminist ideology in front of telling good stories, taking advantage of that really was a very good move on their part.
If mangakas want their industry to remain prominent outside their home country, they should continue with stories that resonate with their target audience instead of trying to market to 0.05% of all comic readers. I know that the thread is about the GG character but actions like said japanese writers enabling the troons by bowing down to their headcanon pretty much are signaling the potential start of such a decline, since they'll only start pressuring for more and more of that like they did with western graphic novels.
While you are right about the profiles of the male femboyfuckers, saying the aesthetic's presence in Japanese media can be attributed only to societal or internalized misogyny is too naive, considering it does appear in non-BL media for women in a non-insignificant amount (And it's not because "whimin like to emasculate men!!1" either unlike what A&Ntards would say, considering the personalities of the characters are often not the "soft nonthreatening gayboi" troons love imitating and talking about.)
Although this is slightly off-topic, it's true that there are some differences in the way men and women portray the femboy archetype. When it comes to female-targeted straight fiction such as shoujo/josei or dating games (otome), the beautiful, effeminate young men (bishonen) may have long hair and other stereotypical feminine attributes, but they are usually still explicitly portrayed as male, even when cross-dressing, both in design and voice. I can't speak for the other ladies, but I personally find such bishonen attractive, because effeminate features enhance their maleness. It can be something like a dress that is obviously ill-fitting, showing off their flat, broad chests, narrow hips and muscles, a silky soft male voice, or something more subtle and less noticeable like bigger hands, smaller eyes, longer necks and so on.
BL is a lot more tricky and gender-fuckery than straight female-targeted media which is why I was specifically talking about it and otokonoko as an example of japanese misogyny. I would split it 50/50 with muscular and average dudes on one hand VS literally "women" with dicks and male voices on the other. This was much more apparent in older BL - the lead was usually drawn as a woman to show how beautiful, and therefore better, he was than any of the actual women in the story. That's where the stereotype of the uke as a stand-in for a woman came from. Yaoi writers and fans didn't shy away from calling them heroines, brides, moms or wives, because they have an extreme fetish for emasculation.
Nowadays, the more progressive fujos frown upon the old strict uke-seme dynamic, calling it "homophobic" and "heteronormative", and act proud of consuming exclusively muscular rapey manhwas (the uke dude is still usually a woman, but now more subtle, as in character traits and obvious female teenager thinking). But I'd say it's more so misogynistic and cruel to women, in the same way that real-life twinks/trannies would brag about being better than those "bitches" and stealing their men.
It's as if everything you like in a female friend is applied to an attractive guy who can pull off such a look with confidence, sexual allure and has similar interests to you. And, you know, he has a dick behind that skirt. The fully straight version doesn't exist in reality, but it's a wish-fulfilment fictional stereotype for a reason.
This is why I find the argument that if a woman likes long-haired bishonen, she must be a closeted lesbian so ridiculous. The famous "lesbian" fujoshits are full-time clowns. Ya stupid Tumblr bitches, if that were the case you wouldn't be so obsessed with pretty boys even after bravely "coming out". You call yourselves lesbians, yet you consume more media with dicks and butt-fucking than any gay dude. Maybe you should just face the horrible fact that you are boring straight w*men who simp for men who would never like you back even as a faghag bestie?
What attracts a heterosexual woman are those male features dressed in something that sexually implicates them. If it was just an androgynous woman, it wouldn't be the same.
The same, I think, applies to tomboys/reverse traps, which are popular with straight men (if there are any). A short haircut can show more how round and soft the face is, and the masculine clothes can emphasise the female body proportions and how differently she fits into them compared to a man. I'm much more likely to believe that a tomboy coomer is actually somewhat straight than a femboy fucker.
Femboys in the male-oriented media are what I would call a coward's choice for closeted faggots and bi-fags who have rotted their brains into sodomy. It has already been mocked to death, see the famous "draw a girl, call it a boy" joke.
What I find fascinating is how such unsettling gender revelations were initially used for comedic purposes, expecting viewers who were turned on by a typical animu loli to be disappointed and lose interest. Ironically, they turned out to be the perfect test to lure out a faggot.
Are you one of those "dick makes it cuter" irony bros who secretly spam femboy porn on 4chan? Congratulations, you are a delusional faggot. You have all these female attributes, but they hardly matter to you compared to a dick. It's a very important male body part, enhanced by all those feminine elements, and that's something a heterosexual woman who is into feminine men would find attractive. No matter how you hide it behind all those superficial features like a female voice actor or a little girl look, that harsh fact still stands.
It's not the image of a woman that makes you hard, it's the idea of a man, usually very young, with an "effeminate penis", twisted both physically and mentally to fit a female role that does. You are sodomite incarnate, please stop breathing.
Am i the only one who always hated Bridget even before he became a troon icon
Like those gay/faggot Jokes about him on 4chan and he was always considered just gooner material. Like those Jokes Made me completely despise his character because it was all just coomer and unfunny femboy Jokes, kinda like astolfo.
Idk if it’s been posted yet, but if anyone has been watching the Strive anime they actually pulled a semi-based move. I’ll spoiler it just in case.
Bridget shows up (obviously, gotta get those free troon views) and he saves Unika (the new character) from dying after falling off a building during her own terrorist attack. When Unika wakes up, she’s on a beach and catches a glimpse of Bridget from behind as he’s bathing naked in the ocean or something (I can’t remember, I was drunk) and later Bridget tells her a speech about accepting people or whatever idk. There was a distinct moment where I thought “God damn it, they’re gonna end up together and the troons are gonna claim this” but nope. Bridget disappears for multiple episodes after that, and then right before the climax he gets wrecked by a basic ass enemy. The last we see of him is Unika watching him get rushed off to intensive care as the doctors say it doesn’t look good. This causes Unika to go super saiyan which furthers the plot to defeat the main villain. After the final battle (which Bridget isn’t there for) the series ends with Ky and Dizzy’s wedding, and everyone is there except Bridget. Unika leaves and thinks fondly of Bridget while telling Sin she needs more worldly experience, but that’s it. As far as we know, he fucking died in the hospital. They never even tell the viewer (or Unika) if he lived. That’s how little he matters to this story. They blatantly added Bridget and used him to “queerbait” the troons, then didn’t even write him into the finale. It was honestly pretty hilarious.
Bridget is like synonymous with video game playing troons. I'm pretty sure that a sizable amount of them that fawn over him don't even play Guilty Gear.
Bridget is like synonymous with video game playing troons. I'm pretty sure that a sizable amount of them that fawn over him don't even play Guilty Gear.
Huh, Bridget thread. Already made a long ass post about how I feel about their bastardization of this character (mostly care about the damage trooning Bridget out did than the actual character) here but TL;DR trannies can't even pick good icons for their mental illness.
Bridget's entire story was trying to prove he was a manly man despite his village doing its best to destroy his masculinity.
Mai's (another character by Arcsys) entire story is trying to turn back into a man after being forcefully turned into a woman, this never changed (God help us Blazblue fans if they make another game with him in it).
Poison wasn't even meant to be a tranny but was changed to one because this was during the late 1980's and woman beating in media was a no-no or some shit. I think she's still a real woman in Japan while in the US it's "yeah we're too lazy to definitively say, fight amongst yourselves."
Their main icons for fighting games is someone who was groomed all his life, another was forcibly turned into a real woman and want to be their original sex again, another isn't even a real tranny and was only called one because "beating troons is more socially acceptable than beating woman" and they still can't go out and say definitively if Poison is a real wamen or not. Telling isn't it?
