This year men found out about LADS adding a period tracker, and men were claiming anime boys reacting to your period and telling you nice things while you're shitting your guts out and in pain is degen and gooner.
Maybe not degen per sey, but thats extremely parsocial to have an AI or whatever rigged to say nice things to you for emotional stability (and before you start, yes men who do the same are also pathetic)
You yourself claim romance for women is degrading to read as male and insulting, while on the same breath complaining about why women don't read straight romance instead of yaoi.
Women write the vast (99%) majority of that, for other women. You'd think it would match their tastes. Also as an elaboration, when I said "as a male" I meant in terms of the male lead, who is often written not as a man, but as a paper thin wish fulfillment item for the female lead that does not act like a man, or even a real person, unlike the female lead who is written as a real woman and person. Again nothing wrong with that, but lets call a spade a spade
Women who express their heterosexuality in ways that dont center the pleasure of men often get mocked.
Same goes for men as well. For example, men who like feet are made fun of ad nasueum. That's as it should be, if you are a weirdo and like weird things, you are going to get made fun for it, and usually thats for the best.
Because they are not for you. Not everything has to be about men and what men like.
See my previous statement. Nothing wrong with that, but lets call a spade a spade.
Just like how you admitted, men don't like writing stories where men are wish fulfillment for the female reader. Women don't like to write stories where women are wish fulfillment for the male reader.
Yes, but most romance out there is not written that way. I can confidently say that 90% of anything found on AO3 is written as wish fulfillment for the female reader. I'll once again refer to my above statement, nothing wrong with that, but lets call a spade a spade.
Also, may I ask why you think it's degrading? are the men too pretty for you or something? I find the idea of men finding picrel degrading hilarious, thanks for the laugh.
I mean AO3 stories. I think this may have been lost, but much of what I say is in reference to AO3. Anything outside of that context I'm not really referring to aside from obvious generalizations.
The men written there are typically, highly emotional, have no agency outside of the female leads desires, have only traits the female lead wants, are all super buff despite spending no time in the gym, are captivated by the female lead despite her not being particularly special, will tolerate the female lead being an absolute jerk to them, tolerate the female lead having interest in other men, will have no real competencies outside of those that serve the female lead, and so on and so forth.
I'm sure you find romance anime/manga insulting for similar/inverse reasons.
Because they are limited by the medium and editors.
I refer back to my statement above, in terms of works I am specifically discussing AO3. Outside of that I cannot comment outside of A Priori generalizations.
I'm going to stop here as this is getting way off-topic and I dont want to fill the thread.