I mean, I'm sure we've all seen stuff where one or both of the guys is so feminized that you could pretty easily just go through and swap the pronouns (and body parts, if necessary) and it'd read EXACTLY like bad het or femslash.
OMFG I hate that. To me, it's just SO insulting to men (and by extension to men I care about, even), and I can totally see how real-world gay and bi guys would protest against that. The "girly" uke and the super seme cliche just really punches my buttons, and not in a good way.
Maybe that was why I liked the Ropeman, Fistman and Loveman stuff that was posted in Yaoi_daily one or two weeks or so ago (aside from it being utterly unmitgated crack). In that, one of the partners was *quite* feminine and was the "uke," but in reality he was the (extremely) dominant partner. It was a really nice change of pace from the wimpy uke thing. And also I thought it was hysterical for some reason (the monumental kink and crack probably had something to do with it, I am sure). But yeah, I can't bear the Chitose Piyoko stuff (for example), it just literally turns my stomach.
Btw, I ordered Smilla's Sense of Snow a few days ago, because you had mentioned how much you enjoyed it. It sounded pretty interesting from the blurbs and such.
Re: Smut and Sexuality (makes it easier to find ;D)
OMFG I hate that. To me, it's just SO insulting to men (and by extension to men I care about, even), and I can totally see how real-world gay and bi guys would protest against that. The "girly" uke and the super seme cliche just really punches my buttons, and not in a good way.
Maybe that was why I liked the Ropeman, Fistman and Loveman stuff that was posted in Yaoi_daily one or two weeks or so ago (aside from it being utterly unmitgated crack). In that, one of the partners was *quite* feminine and was the "uke," but in reality he was the (extremely) dominant partner. It was a really nice change of pace from the wimpy uke thing. And also I thought it was hysterical for some reason (the monumental kink and crack probably had something to do with it, I am sure). But yeah, I can't bear the Chitose Piyoko stuff (for example), it just literally turns my stomach.
Btw, I ordered Smilla's Sense of Snow a few days ago, because you had mentioned how much you enjoyed it. It sounded pretty interesting from the blurbs and such.