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tears.... and then you hug me. I love you
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Hey can we stop this horribly racist trend where Asian characters don’t count as Asian because they don’t have super slanted/narrow eyes and black hair, and are therefore okay to “interpret” as white because BOY am I tired of it.
There are still too many people who are like “well they don’t look like what I think an Asian person should look like so they’re basically white, it’s okay."
Arguing the validity of Asian characters racial/ethnic backgrounds is erasure and bad actually, there’s no reason to do it
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
Reblogging this again to spread awareness.
If you’ve ever been accused of being “A gay who ruins everything” or heard “why do you have to make everything gay”, or such other phrases as “forcing an agenda”, “pandering”, “ruining a good thing”, and other derogatory homophobic or sexist names, you know what it’s like to be a Fujoshi.
When you refer to women as such in a derogatory manner to feel superior you’re not woke, you just sound exactly like rays of sunshine like these:
You know exactly what it’s like to own your sexuality, gender identity, & fan ships in the face of homophobia in gaming/fandom/comics/TV, expanding your understanding of identity, building new creative outlets, finding found family in new friends, and sharing your work, and that’s exactly what Fujoshi do.
so youre really gonna compare gay people who dont want to be objectified to real actual homophobes huh. and youre gonna say youre just as oppressed as gay people online. okay
youre not oppressed because someone called u a fujoshi online. as a matter of fact i feel like if ur called a fujoshi by someone, maybe you should stop for a moment examine how you are interacting with your fictional m/m ships. are you being respectful? are you acting out a fetish? are you encouraging homophobic/transphobic ideas in your work, even if it is unintentional? engage with yourself and your interests critically.
also just because the “movement” was “started by qu**r women”…. doesnt make it magically perfect and infallible, especially over time
please find another hobby like yall really do not have to dedicate all of your free time to fictional men
this whole post is a fucking dumpster fire
You are the disrespectful one here, by making such a comment on an excellent post with sources about how western anti fujoshis throw a term they have little understanding of with abandon. Yes, the original term “fujoshi” was started as an insult towards women, but was reclaimed later on. White western women being fetishistic while identifying as such gives you no right to harass every fujoshi and fudanshi, and threatening and harassing asian women who identify as such.
If by “actual homophobes” you mean lgbt asians, including gay men both trans and cis, then sure. Reading stories and shipping isnt the same as objectification, any more than consuming straight ships.
Also, according to your bio you are white. I am a chinese woman telling you that the harassment asian fandom members is racist and disrespectful, so please listen to me if you believe in listening to “marginalized voices”.
It’s honestly depressing that anyone I’ve seen who disliked this post and commented on it assumed I wasn’t gay/queer. It’s extremely ironic ignoring queer POC who are telling you something and you ignore them by removing any association of queerness from them so you can have an excuse to talk over them. It’s the most common tactic of anti-fujoshi too. It’s always people saying “you’re gonna say your as oppressed as gay people???” hello, I am a gay people.
They always have phrases like DNI if “you are a terf/swerf” on their blogs while spreading TERF rhetoric unironicly.
These same people even censor Queer which was also perpetuated by TERFs as a means of excluding trans/nonbinary/intersex identities.
People who perpetuated the Anti Fujoshi narrative were terfs and you’re actually being transphobic by spreading their narratives. They call trans MLM fujoshi because they hate trans men and see them as “fetishistic” women. They don’t see trans men as men, they see them as women.
Just like how people who hate trans women call them “fetishizers” since the 1970s in western anti-trans circles. That’s it. That’s where it comes from.
People will say “are you encouraging homophobic/transphobic ideas in your work, even if it is unintentional? engage with yourself and your interests critically.” without even realizing their rhetoric is coming from the same people they claim to hate. While repeatedly (and at times violently) talking over gay, trans, and asian people without a second thought, without even reading anything to further educate themselves to feel ‘holier than thou’.
It’s really just sad.
I knew that something always felt “off” whenever anti-fujos accused shippers of being “fetishistic”. THat is probably because accusing “undesirables” of being “sexually deviant” is a well known tactic of bigots.
Yup! I’ve been actually working on a dissertation about all of this for the past year actually and have read and seen it all. The goal is to associate queer/trans/nb people as sexually deviant and predators. Often times you’ll see people who are anti-fujoshi put the term in their DNI alongside ‘terfs/racists/nazis/pedos’ Associating fujoshi as just as bad as hate groups/sexual deviants. The association of fujoshi is then attached to those negative meanings they created and not the original cultural context. The fact that it’s a foreign term makes it easier for them to use it to “other” people too given the language barriers making it easier to perpetuate. They start spreading the anti-trans message without people even realizing it until it becomes the “new normal” in fan spaces.
(((I’ve even seen other (western) trans men perpetuate the anti-fujoshi narrative which is honestly the saddest part.)))
They then attach that meaning they themselves made up to queer BL/Shipping fans to strip them of any humanity/credibility. They honestly treat it like it’s a new filthy curse word, “What are you a nasty fujoshi???” etc. and use it to dehumanize people.
They ignore cis gay Japanese men who enjoy the medium too. Cis gay men who write BL? Read BL? Say BL helped them? Even queer Japanese men who don’t actively read it see it as part of LGBT literature.
All of them? Ignored. They tell them they’re lying about being a gay man, or patronize them saying that they’re a victim of straight women and don’t know how much they’re hurting themselves, or that they’re a traitor to gay men.
Anti-fujoshi don’t care about gay men at all.
Lesbians and bisexual women who consume and create m/m content are not fujoshis. Gay trans men sure as hell aren’t fujoshis. I mean, even cishet women who interact respectfully with m/m content aren’t fujoshis. It refers specifically to cishet women who only consume and create m/m content because they view it as something sexual because it is taboo and don’t care about actual gay men, along with blatantly hating gay women. We cannot go around accusing every woman but especially wlw who makes m/m content of being a fetishist and we can’t do it to trans men either. We cannot dilute what the term fujoshi means and the severe homophobia that mindset is rooted in.
But all fujoshi means is a woman who likes BL. The homophobia is where you then turn around and try to make people feel shame because you think consuming m/m content (even sexual stuff) is somehow abnormal
the way people use some words is confusing
I am older, I am bored and the only reason I am even willing to fight about the word fujoshi is because it was so integral to me finding a queer community irl and because it was a big part of my self discovery and my desire to fight for myself and others... It will always be that gateway to some of the most positive things I ever did with my pathetic life. All of my proudest moments are of me fighting for everyone’s rights... Watching them slip away these last 4 years has been absolutely painful... Even if my state got rid of gay panic defense this year, something I worked for...., the entire rest of usa is still suffering. Homophobic people are more likely to avoid mlm than they are to avoid wlw. It is one of the main reasons I was drawn to mlm stuff over wlw stuff. Also there wasn’t much wlw stuff around as there was mlm. I want people to be equal in every state and in every country. I look up things that are happening in the world and I literally feel like this acceptance of myself could not have come without the BL I was given by a friend. There is a world wide crisis of things being shifted more against lgbt+ peoples world wide... poland, russia, china, Malaysia, Hungry, Turkey, but even places like UK, and Germany... the netherlands, ireland, austria.... Shit is getting worse guys... why are we fighting about who can read lgbt+ fiction? And why are we letting homophobic people have a shield to be homophobic under the guise of being progressive? BL romantasizes-” You know what people like this romantasize? Coming out. It is a political act, not a requirement. Specific labels, having an identity label are also not requirements... so many countries, even Japan, that is just not a really good idea... We are living in a time where you can literally go on most streaming services and find gay content. It wasn’t like that when I was a kid... We are living in a time when you can if you really want look for EXCLUSIVELY lgbt+ films made by lgbt+ people. Sadly trans folks have a long way to go in that department... but there are a LOT of books right now. By trans people under the own voices tag. You can even find books by and about NB people now. Seriously why aren’t the people complaining about Fujoshi interested in reading own voices novels? Fujoshi I know read them. Of course we are all lgbt+ so makes sense. lol. Like the content people say they want is RIGHT THERE. I have dyslexia and find manga much easier to read than novels but I do listen to some on audio book. Gosh people are so lucky these days. When I picked up gay books, I usually had no idea if the author was gay. But most times, they were. But prob because it was just so controversial... but the tools to get the rep you want are right on your computer. And you just... demand people who are writing for free or people in other countries to rep you... It isn’t fair. People in other countries have to rep their own community needs. Not yours. What is the point in making everyone read only their own gender and their own sexuality? Finding what we have in common is way more important to me... Besides, straight people who seek out and enjoy lgbt+ content tend to be way less homophobic then their uninterested counterparts. Support lgbt+ art. Support film, support books, support music, support BL and Yuri.
there’s a very obvious difference between closeted/questioning queer kids searching for mlm content by reading or watching yaoi and straight girls who know they’re straight only reading or watching yaoi content because they think it’s sinful or sexually appealing
What’s the obvious difference?
Maybe I need to come back here. Anti fujoshi discourse is horrible... I feel like being attracted to my own husband is bad...
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
this is how ive been staring at my screen all day
what saved my life yesterday was my mother in law saying she would teach me to drive. I am 28. I don’t know how to drive. I would feel a lot better if I knew how to drive...
I keep feeling like there is no reason I shouldn’t kill myself other than to see tomorrow where I feel the same as I did the day before. It is just not in me. I am trying to be positive and think tomorrow will be better.... but it just isn’t. It feels like any happiness I have is fleeting. And nobody understands me still and I am 28. The person who did understand me even a little killed themselves. Because that is what understanding me means... I have wanted to die since I was 8.... I wish I could say It was only half my life spent like this but it is most of my life... and basically no memories of not wanting to die.
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Feels more accurrate than it should with happenings in my utapri game.
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You know Otoya, it's not really nice to point out the dumbassery of your own team.
some of my favorite snapshots :3
i like to think ren actually went and changed out of his costume into a different one during all this