MasterDias (post: 1192393) wrote:Personally, I've never really understood this whole shonen ai/yaoi obsession that seems to overtake certain fandoms. And I've never understood why so many straight women and girls are so obsessed with it. Meh.
Some of it, I think, is just peer pressure of a sort, and wanting to look hip, cool, and "rebellious". However, I also think like ShatterheartArk does - some of it is simple perversion - it's just that straight men who are into yuri for, well, cheap thrills, are generally more up front and honest about it than straight women who are into yaoi for cheap thrills are.
No doubt some straight women do like yaoi for the "social justice for homosexuals" message that it somehow sends in their minds, or to be "hip and cool", but some of it really is cheap thrills I think.
minakichan - Thanks for the informative answer, and the reply! I'm glad that we see eye to eye on a lot of these issues. Yaoi does bother me a lot when I get a feeling that it's taking away from a perfectly good plutonic friendship between two male characters... or from a perfectly good rivalry between two male characters. The notion that "two rivals must secretly love one another" is simply absurd to the nth degree to me. Barring an exceptionally nasty break-up (and something severely wrong with one or both of the two partners), you don't try to kill the one you love...