if u ever think the whole “fujoshi are just straight girls fetishizing gay men” thing isn’t toxic, one of my top 3 reasons for not allowing myself to identify as a transmasc person is because im afraid im a fetishizing straight girl and that hurts. this shit hurts people. like, I don’t even read yaoi. but I was on the internet when people still said that shit about all female fans of slash, and it hurts me still.
so, i only went in to get the shiny silvally code. should’ve taken like a minute or two at most but i was in there for upwards of ten. it was deeply unsettling right off the bat when i walked in because it was quiet. like really quiet. the tv that plays the gaming news and the speaker that plays the ads weren’t running. the cashier says hello and i get in line to wait. it is dead silent. nobody in the store is making any noise except for the cashier, who is typing. she’s helping a little boy sell 12 PS4 games. the boys mom is walking back and forth behind him sipping her gas station brand cup of coffee. literally just walking back and forth from one end of the store to the other. all the while the entire store is silent, the kid is silent, the mom is silent… all 5 of the other full grown adults in this store are silent. and i’m the only one in line behind this kid, these other adults throughout the store are like standing in one space just staring and being quiet. they weren’t browsing, they weren’t talking. nobody was making any noise. i wasn’t making any noise. i was standing there thinking about how eerily silent it was in this gamestop and wondering what the hell was going on – hyper aware of every move i made because i didn’t want to make a noise and break the silence. this carried on for literally 10 minutes before another cashier came in through the front door and loudly exclaimed “i can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” he called me to the counter and asked me what i needed help with. it was like immediately the ambient noises of gamestop all returned at once and i stepped forward to get my code.
my favorite part of this is the implication that not only was the first cashier somehow responsible for the eerie silence to begin with but also that this has certainly happened before
can we recognize that back then when yaoi fangirls were going through their XD phase that they were not hated for “fetishization”( depending what you mean now since this website warped the definition). Yes call out homophobic behavior but realize fangirls were shitted on because it was cool to make fun of girls and their interests. and it was a bonus since the content was queer. Thats it. I understand where some of y’all are coming from but you need to know that the hatred did not originate from wanting to protect mlm, and that lie needs to stop being spread in order to gain “woke points.” It originated from homophobia and misogyny. It’s the same thing when twilight came out. The fangirls were not hated because they enjoyed the problematic elements in twilight, they were hated because they were girls w/ interests.
Apparently controversial opinion on tumlr dot com: sexual attraction without romantic attraction is not inherently objectifying and sexual attraction to fictional characters is not objectifying at all because they are objects made for consumption.
It therefore follows that reading porn of two fictional characters is not equal to the objectification of real people and their relationships.
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