Yaoi or No Yaoi...that's the question.

[ariadnem]

Well, there's this forum where I've uploaded my non-yaoi fics. Why is that?? Well, I've discovered how sensitive can people be when it comes to things they don't like a.k.a don't understand. Anyway, today I received notification that someone had responded to my post (a post where I've uploaded my non yaoi Spanish drabblers) Imagine my surprise when in the signature of the one who posted I found this:

antiyaoi

I just made me laugh their arguments for not liking yaoi (Which I personally think are completely valid and respectable). I know it would also make me laugh my reasons or other's for liking it. What can I say? I mean, everyone's free to speak as they wish. It's just fun that the people who like yaoi are "attacked" by things like this. I wonder what would the people who do like yaoi say of all this.

Anyway, I like both things. I have no problems with ether of them. I'm just here, sitting while I write this wondering, where's the tolerance to the difference?

Comments

[scorpioyue.livejournal.com]

Just read some comments at that comm. Seems some of them are against rabid yaoi fangirls who give a damn about characterization and all they want to read is about their favorite male charas having sex. Nonetheless, I'm sure that inside that comm there are also insane anti-yaoi fans who hate anything that has to do with m/m fanwork.

Extremes are bad and will always be. In both cases, if someone doesn't like something, why don't they turn their back peacefully without making fuss about it, I wonder?

And now I really need to stop checking lj and finish what I need to do! *shoots herself*

[law-shalili.livejournal.com]

Hello !
(Hihi... my english is very bad in writting XD)
Wow O.O A community like this O.O Why not ! But I don't understand... everyone thinks what he wants ! So this kind of community is just here for make polemics !
I like yaoi fanfic ! Not because is two guys but because there are very good history sometimes ! It make my laugh... they are very extremists... -_-

[lady-hook.livejournal.com]

XDDDDD
Extreme positions are bad no matter to which point they lead...It's ok if there are people who don't like yaoi,it's ok if there are people who love yaoi...the problem is with people who care that much for yaoi or for non-yaoi , just read that comment at that comm of a guy saying his girlfriend left him 'cos of yaoi!!! that made me go kinda @___@''''..."be it yaoi or me" kinda thing... heck,people are weird sometimes...
I think respect is the crucial word... everyone's is entitled to his/her own tastes as long as doesn't want to impose by force that taste on someone else...dunno...

[muinteor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, I read some of the comments over there on the antiyaoi community. Sounds like a bunch of cranks to me. I'm sure there are anti-RPG communities, anti-Harry Potter communities, I'm sure there are even anti-vegetarian communities. Now it's all very well that a group of people with similar likes or dislikes get together and rant and rave about whatever it is they want to rant and rave about.

I could understand it if they were anti-corruption, anti-globalization, anti-big business, anti-world polllution, or anti-terorism.

But they might as well be anti-Simpsons, anti-goldfish, or anti-vampires.

I read about the guy who's girl friend left him when he demanded she choose between yaoi and him. I reckon if that girl had been a poetry writer, and he'd made the ultimatum "Poetry or me" and she chose poetry, he'd be in an anti-poetry community.

Well, let me just say one more thing. It's all very well a group of people getting together and bad-mouthing a group of people they don't like. They have that right.

This thing reminds me of the demonstration in Madrid last month, the Church and the PP got thousands of people to march in the centre of Madrid to protest against homosexual marriages. I mean... That was the first time I saw a massive demonstration with such a baseless message.

Homosexuals can now marry here in Spain, which is a social advance, and not the end of the world, which is what the Church is currently preaching.

So let the cranks have their say. If it makes them happy.

I personally find positive group interaction to be more gratifying than griping and complaining.

It's that group instinct thing that brings out the worst in people.

That's the end of my rant, keep writing, yaoi or non-yaoi, whatever and however you want.