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"(Sorry! continuation of prev annoyed ask)

I had just forgotten about a dumb take (queer = good; straight = bad) until I saw it again, and now I'm trying to resist the urge to strangle them through the monitor."

As another anon once said, we don't like our food to touch LOL. I'm in the otome space because I want to consume otome works, and I'm in the BL space because I want to consume BL works, people need to stop mixing everything together just because they want a one-stop shop. If people outside the target demographic want to play in the space, sure, but they need to realize they aren't the target demographic (and cooperate in tagging things appropriately so that everyone can be directed to seeing what they want to see).

Oh boy, I recently saw a terrible take too about how misandry and heterophobia doesn't exist LOL. Like, I dunno, I think there's nuance here depending on the space being examined! Yes, these two groups of people have privileges, especially out in the real world, but punching up is still punching someone. We can see this when it happens in niche spaces, like the vitriol male sinners get in Path to Nowhere and the invasion of otome game spaces because "Straight media is everywhere!".

(Sorry! continuation of prev annoyed ask)

I had just forgotten about a dumb take (queer = good; straight = bad) until I saw it again, and now I'm trying to resist the urge to strangle them through the monitor.

As another anon once said, we don't like our food to touch LOL. I'm in the otome space because I want to consume otome works, and I'm in the BL space because I want to consume BL works, people need to stop mixing everything together just because they want a one-stop shop. If people outside the target demographic want to play in the space, sure, but they need to realize they aren't the target demographic (and cooperate in tagging things appropriately so that everyone can be directed to seeing what they want to see).

Oh boy, I recently saw a terrible take too about how misandry and heterophobia doesn't exist LOL. Like, I dunno, I think there's nuance here depending on the space being examined! Yes, these two groups of people have privileges, especially out in the real world, but 

. We can see this when it happens in niche spaces, like the vitriol male sinners get in Path to Nowhere and the invasion of otome game spaces because "Straight media is everywhere!".

The more I see BL in otome spaces, the more it pisses me off. Like, I'm bi myself but there's a subsection of those fujoshi that are fucking unhinged and only see BL as something to fetishize. I don't know if I'm being hypocritical because I do enjoy BL media, but I just dislike it whenever it's brought up in otome games. Esp when they think that otome media is free capital for them to play around in. Ik I  can't control other player's thoughts and they're free to play around however they want, but like. am I making any sense? lol. ugh. and then there's the homophobia accusations (which are so fucking dumb, like I even feel bad for LDS for getting that reputation, whenever that's brought up as a complaint against the game). Not saying that queer people can't be homophobic POS (cough log cabin republicans), but ykwim

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