Posing as an academic for a change

[zenkatsuo]

I haven't written a proper rambling entry in a long while. Likely because I've been hung up about homework and bidding on auctions every single night for the past God knows how long. Like all my entries after a while in posting, this one too is about nothing that's actually happened. Nothing much happens to me anyway.

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[zenkatsuo]

I had to google Dan Savage to realize I've read his Savage Love at some point. He's cute too. I like Go Ask Alice. Even though its use isn't restricted to University of Columbia students, I like to imagine all the questions come from them. Makes the really moronic questions more funny.

Oh I'm sure there're morons out there. I bet there're even authors who aren't that well versed in human anatomy. But what really makes me irate is people who repeatedly comment along the lines of "LOL A little bit of research would tell the author that THE ASS DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY". Just how many people do they think are involved in the Japanese BL industry? And they think these thousands (tens of thousands?) of people have never realized that they might actually consult a book, the internet, or a gay man? So really, I act superior too, so what's my problem..? I'm just squicked by how people seem to not be able to grasp that BL is not, has never been and will never be about the realities of male homosexual romance. Thus the authors really have no need to read The Joy of Gay Sex in order to achieve realism in their depictions of sexual encounters between men. They only need to follow the conventions of the genre, which sadly include some tropes that many find abhorrent or ridiculously unrealistic.

I would delight in some examples of both the things you're squicked by and more realistic titles.

And I actually think the ukes penis is a surrogate clitoris... The piss and come thing. Could it be that it's not so much a misunderstanding about the workings of male plumbing, but about the female. The nature of female ejaculate still remains a mystery to many. One guy even divorced his wife on the grounds that he thought she was pissing on him during sex.