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Answerman - Why Do Guys In Yaoi Claim To Be Straight?

I'd be more interested in an article that explains what about that the Japanese find sexy xD

But not everything "Western values" is good or desirable. Yes, LBGT rights should be widespread. NO, they should not be forced into an overnight change. The harder you push, the harder people fight back, and if your supporters are too few, you will fail (As I'm assuming is how things would turn out in Japan as they don't have as many gays or at least aren't as outspoken about being gay) The reason America is making so many advances in LBGT rights now is because the younger generation (say, mid 20s and younger) are WAY more accepting of gays than any generation before them. We were the first to be brought up in a world where being gay wasn't completely hush-hush. Good or bad, it was talked about, which made it more familiar. And that's why the younger generation's opinions on gays tend to lean towards "Well, they love each other. What's wrong with that?" If the current progress was rioted for 20 years ago (it probably was, I haven't researched the topic too deeply) it would have failed. Drastic change cannot happen quickly, not unless you're knocking down people's doors with guns and forcing them to think a certain way, and those methods are never useful. People that have been raised to hate or fear gays will likely always hate or fear them, even if it's to a much lesser degree as being gay becomes more "normal". But with each new generation, that irrational fear and hate will lessen, until it's no big deal and gays have the same rights as everyone else.

I can also speak as someone who may not adhere to the traditional sense of gende and identity, but knowing the difference between a relationship built on love and a relationship built on lust is an important rung in a very long ladder.

Savion wrote:

Also amazed at multiple people falling for someone's sarcastic pseudo-progressive comments lol.

Well, that's the problem of parody, when it sounds so dangerously close to the real thing

Good article.
Maybe in the future, manga and anime will portray LGBT relationships more accurately.

Cutiebunny wrote:

hentai aimed at straight men usually makes me laugh with its copious amounts of body fluid.

I still watch it anyways, but every time it gets to the scene of "please fill my womb!" I just lose it. What's so hot about a scene of the inside of a vagina getting filled with sperm? And it's in at least 50% of hentai (probably more...) Though that's not as bad as the ones that show you the inside of the vagina DURING. Like...nope...not what I came here for...

I'd be more interested in an article that explains what about that the Japanese find sexy xD

To be honest, the main appeal of BL manga for me as a female, is that the couple is equal.
They can switch being dominant and there's no 'weak female that needs to be protected'. It's a hard thing to explain, but it's something ingrained in me by society and yaoi's a nice escape from it. The guy usually actually has concern for his partner and is careful not to hurt him too during such scenes, which isn't something that happens often in straight stuff.

(Guys like Christian Weston Chandler, the Sonichu guy, still hasn't figured it out: He thinks romance is just a pretense to have sex and that the purpose of marriage is to have sex legally.)

Heh, that reminds me of an Extra Credits video about romance in games where the narrator had to point out, "not sex, but romance." Shows how immature a lot of gamers are that this distinction had to be pointed out. (Guys like Christian Weston Chandler, the Sonichu guy, still hasn't figured it out: He thinks romance is just a pretense to have sex and that the purpose of marriage is to have sex legally.)

Remember, ANN is PG13.

Boy, is he in for a disappointment!

Well it started out that way. To me and her-in-doors romance without eventual sex is like eating a jam bum without the jam in the middle. Disappointing in the end, but the same youth you mentioned earlier seem to have abandoned that notion of marrage as well.

It started out that way. Then, the cavemen decided to stop bonking women on the head and dragging them by their hair back into the caves.

But not everything "Western values" is good or desirable. Yes, LBGT rights should be widespread. NO, they should not be forced into an overnight change. The harder you push, the harder people fight back, and if your supporters are too few, you will fail (As I'm assuming is how things would turn out in Japan as they don't have as many gays or at least aren't as outspoken about being gay) The reason America is making so many advances in LBGT rights now is because the younger generation (say, mid 20s and younger) are WAY more accepting of gays than any generation before them. We were the first to be brought up in a world where being gay wasn't completely hush-hush. Good or bad, it was talked about, which made it more familiar. And that's why the younger generation's opinions on gays tend to lean towards "Well, they love each other. What's wrong with that?" If the current progress was rioted for 20 years ago (it probably was, I haven't researched the topic too deeply) it would have failed. Drastic change cannot happen quickly, not unless you're knocking down people's doors with guns and forcing them to think a certain way, and those methods are never useful. People that have been raised to hate or fear gays will likely always hate or fear them, even if it's to a much lesser degree as being gay becomes more "normal". But with each new generation, that irrational fear and hate will lessen, until it's no big deal and gays have the same rights as everyone else.

While it'd be nice to wake up in a world where gays, blacks, etc, weren't discriminated in tomorrow morning, it's simply not going to happen. It'll take years, probably decades.

. No one wants to marry someone insane like CWC anyway.

Well, he's been trying for well over a decade with his Attraction Signs, which read like something from the newspaper's Personals pages ("I am a (A)-year old male looking for a female with (qualifications)"). He writes them onto cardboard picket signs, then hangs out somewhere for a few hours quietly holding it up. He wants THEM to come to HIM and initiate conversation.