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[mangagirl1]

For the first time in a long time I can honestly say that I am getting tired of yaoi. I really enjoy the sweet love stories that I used to see on these sites. Now, it seems that all I ever see (especially in mangafox) are these stories that blame women for their sexuallity or stories where these gay males think it is alright to abuse a women in a relationship that they do not want in the first place, and then romanticize their love affair with a man on the side. Not cool. There are two many of these stories lately (even in LJ). What bothers me most is that usually the authors are female. Do women really see gay men as being this tyranical towards women. I should hope that the reality is very different in the gay world, too. I admit that it really pushed my distaste over the line when I read Broke Back Mountain.  That story really disturbed me the more I thought about it: One man married his wife just to prove to himself that he was not gay. The other man married his wife ONLY for her money. If their was any beauty to their relationship, this horrid behavior distroys it. Years later, both women are  left with the realization that they were used by these men they loved. That sucks! Male or Female, it is not right to treat someone that way. Has anyone else noticed the frequency of this in story lines. The picking on women as though they were the route to all evil is cool. Do yuri stories do this? Why do you female writers even bother writing such a thing into your stories?  Don't you feel that it is insulting to you as a women?  I admit that I get into such conversations with girlfriends about men, and  I imagine that men do the same. However, these stories gave me freedom from my thoughts about what annoyed me about males and that is one of the major reasons that I read yaoi. I also respect poetic liscence. Everyone is striving to best express themselves through their writings. I just really want to know the motive behind this recent trend and find out how both readers and authors feel about it.

I hope to see more stories in the future that go back to focussing on a good plot or a real romantic story and not the whole "women suck" theme.  All though I am sure it has good storylines, I honestly cannot bring myself to try a yuri genre.  And my heart really is not in any other genre at the moment.