I didn't have much trouble with the yuri and yaoi crowd before. Different stokes for different folks, ya know? If they're paying and being active about their interest, then so be it. What's really alarming is how heterosexual people have grown fixed on the gay after a few decades. When asking the reason for such a trend, one can usually hear the "one chocolate bar, two chocolate bars" adage, but it doesn't even explain it one tenth as well.
The way I see it, fujoshi and himedanshi are people who have deep anxieties about heterosexual relationships and, in particular, how their gender is being treated by the opposite one. Gender stereotypes, uncomfortable implications, biological attributes of their sex, etc. So instead of either reflecting on these feelings in some way or fixing the society that inforces such ideas, they take an easy way out and remove what in their mind is "the cause of the problem" from the equation, namely, whoever is representing their sex. And, boom, suddenly we have two girls/guys who are equal and don't have all of the aforementioned worries. And they can both be interesting, colorful characters, which would be *obviously* impossible if they were opposite sexes because of X, Y, Z (usually social/gender reasons). In their eyes, it's not as reprehensible if a female pervert squeezes another girl's breasts, and it's not as intimidating when a guy impregnates another one.
Basically, these heterosexual people idealize homosexuality on a subconscious level, seeing it as a more safe and liberating option in terms of relationships between partners. An escapist fantasy in an already escapist fantasy that is romance. They're trying to escape gender stereotypes, not realizing that they're so deeply embedded in their heads that they don't even notice them. Man, it's a real mystery why many of them end up trooning out later in life, right?
Thus, in my humble opinion, yuri and yaoi's popularity tells of a huge hidden problem within our modern society... So dunking on both fujos and yuricucks, who blindly support it, is justified lmao.