I Love Ugly Women

there is a contingent of fujoshi who are really into transsexual men, which would be unheard of back in the 2000’s when i was in these streets. i have a lot of thoughts about this and many of them are tumblr problematic but overall i see it as a positive development in the diminishing of misogyny and transphobia in those areas. it both disrupts and entrenches the kind of misogyny that fujos are historically and presently known for. good food for my pretentious psychoanalytic bit.

speaking of transsexual men, the fujos have embraced mpreg in ways that were inconceivable a decade ago. they take it somewhat seriously. like it’s not just a meme anymore. however, again, it is colored by heterosexual dynamics for the most part.

some fujoshi are very hostile to the heterosexual dynamics they eroticize becoming subverted by advocates of “switching.” i have noticed, and this is admittedly anecdotal, that the 30+ age group are the ones being very defensive about this, because they were the ones who pioneered it. for them, the top is the dominant is the male and the bottom is the submissive is the female. i always thought the idea that “fujos have a gay male fetish” was a grave misreading. yaoi is the terrain many of them use to eroticize and cope with the regime of heterosexuality—fujos are not voyeurs, they project onto the male characters, they participate in a sort of alienation from their own bodies and venerate men, they ignore the interiority of women, it’s safer to explore heterosexuality as a man since men are its benefactors. these gen z fujos offend the yaoi traditionalists with their woke “switching” and “power bottoms” and “submissive tops.” the zoomers are shaking tables, but the millennials want a retvrn to form. this is their boomer moment.

the increased interest in the himejoshi is a very positive development. a lot of these yuri works upend heterosexuality and explore gender in ways that most original yaoi and heterosexual works do not. our sexual imaginations, and what sex acts are possible, are limited by the regime of heterosexuality. as a wise woman once said, “anyone can scissor.” they are the minority, but they are more visible than ever now, likely because of the online presence of feminism. i am finally in the cool zone now.

fandomites are embroiled in arguments about the ideology of kink, which is a positive development that was long overdue.

it is good to see a growing awareness that adults are in community with children when they engage in creating art based on shows for children, whether they like it or not. debates about the responsibility of adults or lack thereof are a good development, i think. back in my day we just didn’t care, but the original internet fandomites are in their 30’s now and they harbor so much anxiety about the fact that they are no longer kids bypassing flimsy 18+ filters anymore.

the women fandomites generally still do not love black people nor trans women, but among these fandomites, it looks like the yuri enjoyers embrace that kind of diversity a little more than everyone else, if ao3 stats are anything to go by. the culture is still obsessed with white men (fandomites see anime characters as functionally white despite their canonical ethnicity) after all these years. but i have observed some significant changes. i like to see the wokeness, because i’m an oldhead. i was reading gooned up doujinshi with insane physiology and heterosexual dynamics, where the viewer was always intended to project on the “bottom” character and rape was common for very obvious reasons. contrast to today, in the wild like a month ago i saw a jayvik fanart where viktor was a trans man and he was penetrating jayce with his T’d up clit. that would be an unthinkable sight to the fujo browsing aarinfantasy forums in 2008. this is the wokeness we need.

i have a schizo rant in my drafts about the widespread use of the term “dubcon” among women who eroticize rape in fanfiction but feel kinda bad about it, so they sanitize it instead of contending with it. sister that twinky yaoi bottom was coerced into accepting sex after resisting thirteen different times ma’am that isn’t freaking “dubcon” you just find rape erotic my sister.