if god stands in your way mow him down

once you notice how many people complaining about trends in western fandom do so by being like “this is just like yaoi, the pinnacle of homophobic top/bottom stereotyping” it gets really annoying

one time i saw a long post complaining about top/bottom stereotyping in western m/m fanwork that started right off by negatively calling it “yaoification” and then today i saw a post about like being unimaginative in assigning fursonas to horror characters that compared it to seme/uke and the thing is in all these cases there’s never any elaboration on the actual bl tropes being invoked. it’s just assumed that by bringing it up everyone is going to understand you mean, like, the homophobic foreign platonic ideal of whatever bad thing you’re talking about. come onnnn

it really is just like, americans seeing american homophobia happen in american fandom americanly: what are we, a bunch of ASIANS????