*laugh* I don't think most women care what gay men think when they write yaoi and slash. Japanese gay men usually don't read yaoi anyway - they have their own publications. Even for a series like SDK that hs large numbers of male and female fans, men and women are unlikely to interact within the fandom. I think there's a growing push now to make yaoi characters act more like men and to have more flexibility in the relationships, but it's still totally dominated by the Same Old Crap.
Oh, I'm sure the writers make the "uke" into an avatar of themselves, but why don't they make the sex scenes pleasant then!? It's all blood, sweat and tears. If they actually bothered to write Hotaru in character, I doubt there would be much seduction at all... you can loiok right into Hotaru's eyes and tell that there is absolutely nothing going on in his head.
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Date: 2007-02-01 05:46 pm (UTC)*laugh* I don't think most women care what gay men think when they write yaoi and slash. Japanese gay men usually don't read yaoi anyway - they have their own publications. Even for a series like SDK that hs large numbers of male and female fans, men and women are unlikely to interact within the fandom. I think there's a growing push now to make yaoi characters act more like men and to have more flexibility in the relationships, but it's still totally dominated by the Same Old Crap.
Oh, I'm sure the writers make the "uke" into an avatar of themselves, but why don't they make the sex scenes pleasant then!? It's all blood, sweat and tears. If they actually bothered to write Hotaru in character, I doubt there would be much seduction at all... you can loiok right into Hotaru's eyes and tell that there is absolutely nothing going on in his head.