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Losing my mind over this

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Heterophobia isn’t the fucking problem—it’s misogyny.

It doesn’t matter what fandom you’re in. You’ll see it. No matter how great a woman’s chemistry is with a) a man or b) another woman, you will absolutely see that ship underrepresented.

Don’t tell me this doesn’t exist and don’t tell me that isn’t why. I’ve seen so many comments that write off female characters or ships with a female character. If she was a boy, so many people would lose their mind about how cute they were with their love interest, but because it’s a woman, we’re just going to ignore it. Female characters disappear from fandom entirely sometimes because fans don’t want to engage with them at all or somehow forget they exist even when they’re important to male characters! I’ve seen fics where it’s apparent women are literally replaced by men and no longer even exist as a gender.

It’s something I’ve kept quiet about for years but I’m really tired of seeing people hate on female characters even by virtue of just ignoring the fact that they exist (common treatment of women in real life too). I’ve had enough.

I’m all for writing and engaging with whatever content you want and that’s a hill I’d die on, but if none of your ships that you regularly engage with involve a woman, I implore you to examine why that may be.

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Proposal: an XKit plugin that replaces every occurrence of the word “problematic” with “heretical”.

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i have shitposts

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Trevor and Sypha: sjfjsgicxjvjsmcjsjf

Alucard: ?? What was that?

Sypha: Laughing

Alucard: How do you do it?

Trevor: Just press any key

Alucard: Okay

Alucard: 6

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Hearts be like, bump bump bump lol

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I’m almost certain someone did this already

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Sidenote, I find it interesting (and by interesting I mean disgusting & disappointing) how the term ‘Fujoshi’ has come full circle in western culture to mean: ‘rotten women, degenerates, women who ruin everything, women who are ruined/deviant/corrupted, Abusers etc. etc.’ When it originated as an overall general term for women who didn’t conform to conventional gender & heterosexual roles & standards in Japan. That was it. That’s all it meant.

They were literally considered “ruined women” not fit for marriage or regular society. It was deeply misogynistic & homophobic in root. Female fans were referred to as Fujoshi whether they were “exploitative” of M/M relationships or not. Simply appreciating or engaging in queer relationships to any degree was seen as “rotten” and deemed someone a Fujoshi. The term is NOT exclusive to people who are seen as fetishizing said content/relationships. It’s a reclaimed term still actively used to this day in Japan.

Western fandom has taken this reclaimed word that comes from Japanese context & culture, and weaponized it all over again. To the point where people don’t even remotely know what it means in historical terms and throw it around with smug abandon. To the point where if they saw a Japanese person use it, would likely unleash a full-scale hate campaign against them. I don’t know if some newer western self identified Fujoshi are somehow using the term wrong as well but I’m talking about the actual REAL original meaning & context that has only become present day warped in western fandom, and is used to attack women & lgbt+ ppl who dare mention the term. (Or label them as such to deem certain ppl as fandom undesirables.) It’s embarrassing.

I’ve literally seen people say ‘time to reclaim X series from the Fujoshis! :^)’ When the original author of said work they’re celebrating… Would be considered a Fujoshi…

Fujoshi isn’t synonymous with ‘exploitative nasty straight women’. 

Many of these women were & are queer themselves and “BL”, Yaoi & Yuri works are all a means to explore gender identity, sexuality, empowerment, etc.  Lots of iconic shojo series overlap with themes present in a lot of these works too. It’s not a coincidence (Utena, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, etc.) 

Many people I know personally who also grew up with BL works, including myself later discovered “Oh I’m bi, I’m genderfluid, I’m nonbinary, I’m trans, etc.” The past few decades BL has still been ‘taboo’ for having queer relationships, but at least in western culture it was a “safe” way to engage in these stories when LGBTQ+ media was actively shut out from main stream media. People didn’t pay attention to manga or comics, so buying them, borrowing them, reading them could be done almost in plain sight. While most of us didn’t identify/call ourselves Fujoshi we’d still be considered Fujoshi, make sense?

I implore you all to at least do some research and read academic articles BY Japanese women & other older fans about these topics before subscribing to the misinformed hate-wagon and bastardizing a non-western term beyond recognition.

I also find it worth mentioning that Fujoshi & Fudanshi both refer to women & men respectively who are “corrupt/rotten/disposable” for enjoying M/M relationships in any fashion. Sexualizing men is seen as inherently negative. 

(This is a side topic but there is even a whole paper (I dont think it’s been published yet? I know this because I attended a conference where she presented last month) done by Kazumi Nagaike who found that there are self identified Fudanshi men who identify as straight & read BL manga because its the only media in which they can experience a male character receiving romantic affection, attention and being comforted and cared for lovingly) They actively hide it though because it would be seen as shameful. Fujoshi & Fudanshi culture isn’t as shallow & degenerate as these westerners make them seem.)

But, there is no mainstream term (if any) for individuals who write about/enjoy or sexualize F/F relationships, and if there IS a term I’ve never seen anyone use it or make a big fuss over it to remotely the same degree. No “lets reclaim these yuri/lesbian characters from those nasty men >:)” large scale campaigns. It’s always women & queer fans that get thrown under the bus.

Here’s a great master post with numerous sources and further in depth explanations I would just end up copypasting so here’s the link instead

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he was a tater tot, she said see ya later thot

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nintendo: can't have alcohol in our child gambling games!!! solution???

vacation juice

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