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Hey, Answerman! [2006-10-06]

Kilgamayan wrote:

Shota is the male equivalent of loli.

I was under the impression it was the other way round. ie female equivalent of loli.

Most Lolicon are male and most Shotacon are female, respectively, but of course not all of them are like that. It's just heterosexuals outnumber homosexuals.

(This hold true especially in sub-fandoms related to BL where nearly every teenage girl pretends to be male at least once.

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(This hold true especially in sub-fandoms related to BL where nearly every teenage girl pretends to be male at least once.

What does BL stand for?

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(This hold true especially in sub-fandoms related to BL where nearly every teenage girl pretends to be male at least once.

EDIT: Why would girls be ashamed of liking boy love that?

Zalis116 wrote:

Plus, if I'm to believe what I've read on these forums in the past, many yaoi fangirls will get into a series not because of its story/art/music/etc., but just because there's some hot male-male slash pairing to fantasize about, and I don't think that's cool.

I'm not trying to argue with you or your opinions in general, but I'd just like to point out that there are plenty of guys out there who get into series just because it might have one or more good looking women or a horde of pretty school girls, or girls who will watch a series just for the bishounen. I don't really see how that's any different than yaoi fangirls (most of whom are actually shounen-ai fangirls and would probably put off by actual yaoi) getting into a show just for the shounen-ai content.

It's not a matter of feeling ashamed, girls pretend to be boys on the 'net just because it's loads of fun. To physically live out their fantasies of being gay males whisked away by suave, incredibly sexy older men would require extensive (and extremely expensive) surgery, and pretending to be cute little gay boys on the internet is a healthy way to explore their sexuality.

Wolverine Princess wrote:

It's not a matter of feeling ashamed, girls pretend to be boys on the 'net just because it's loads of fun. To physically live out their fantasies of being gay males whisked away by suave, incredibly sexy older men would require extensive (and extremely expensive) surgery, and pretending to be cute little gay boys on the internet is a healthy way to explore their sexuality.

Please forgive my obtuseness, but... WHY?!?
I especially find this odd since often (enough) we're talking (I guess) about girls pretending to be a gay guy being whisked away by a guy who in the source material IS NOT GAY. WHY?!? (granted, sometimes it's 2 guys who in the material ARE gay, but still I don't get why you would recast yourself (assuming you DON'T have gender identity issues) as the opposite sex JUST so you can be gay with another member of that sex in your fantasy)

There is a difference. We shouldn't bash what other people do to enjoy themselves, by themselves for their own purpose, with only consenting parties involved. But we should bash the opinion that people should give up what they like and become more normal or fly their flags a little lower.

So, if we have yaoi fangirls who like to squeal and scream and run around and profess their love for the characters in the yaoi anime they watch, that's people enjoying themselves.

If we have anti-yaoi-fangirl people who get annoyed and tell them to shut up, that's people trying to interfere with enjoyment.

There is a difference. We shouldn't bash what other people do to enjoy themselves, by themselves for their own purpose, with only consenting parties involved. But we should bash the opinion that people should give up what they like and become more normal or fly their flags a little lower.

So, if we have yaoi fangirls who like to squeal and scream and run around and profess their love for the characters in the yaoi anime they watch, that's people enjoying themselves. If we have anti-yaoi-fangirl people who get annoyed and tell them to shut up, that's people trying to interfere with enjoyment.

Steroid wrote:

There is a difference. We shouldn't bash what other people do to enjoy themselves, by themselves for their own purpose, with only consenting parties involved. But we should bash the opinion that people should give up what they like and become more normal or fly their flags a little lower.

Certainly there's conformity (which I do not condone in the slightest), but there's also something called common courtesy when it comes to not acting out on every single urge that you have, and respect also files along with it.

So if someone cuts himself and does harsh drugs like heroin we can give them the "A-OK!" and leave it at that?

So obnoxiousness should be tolerated?

... What kind of inane view is that?

You don't seem to understand the principle behind many of the amendments of the constitution.

Your right to be disruptive and annoying and loud ends at my ears. Your right to throw a punch ends at my face.

You can't just do whatever you like. What about the enjoyment of people who want quiet restraint? What about the enjoyment of the people who have sensitive ears?

You seem to disregard those people; the most important people to you are whoever's acting out in the way that most irritates or annoys or disrupts other peoples' enjoyment. Your argument makes absolutely no sense. I get what you're saying, but you take everything you say into this total nonsense realm of utter lunacy.

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Your right to be disruptive and annoying and loud ends at my ears. Your right to throw a punch ends at my face.

Very true, but as I've said before, my right to throw a punch exists to the limit of your face, and not before. Unless I've actually done damage to you, not just irked you, it's still correct to do it.

Let's say I'm a yaoi fangirl, and I want to act out and squeal. What does it do for me to restrain myself?