in the same way, f/f doesn't garner as much support as well to m/m in places like ao3 precisely because it's by and large a market of uwu voyeurism. this is the reason that sfw content does far less well. but all we're saying is, should it be?
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a fundamental genre difference between BL and GL is that as forms of gay media they've developed two distinct approaches to self-signaling a plausible deniability. BL can veer into the explicit/romantic because it can pretend to (and profit from) the market of straight voyeur...
yaoi is more popular than yuri largely due to demographics (it's for straight women) but the former gets incredibly uncomfortable with those demographics so will keep pushing for some mythological reason as to why people enjoy it
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...whereas GL doesn't have the same luxury to be explicit because the market of pornography for straight men is hostile to anything that doesn't cater to self-insertion, due to misogyny. i bet you that m/f/f content is FAR more popular than BL, for example.
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the approach to plausible deniability for yuri/GL is through euphemism and signaling. miyazawa's this too is yuri is not like a coincidence, but a consequence of how even explicit stories of lesbian love are largely told through the negative/symbolic depiction of something else
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i think all people are asking for when they want as much recognition for and discussion of portrayals of lesbian relationships in the same fandom spaces is that we should pay more attention to positive and explicit and centering depictions and discussions about women in media
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and honestly the reason it's difficult is because of a growing cultural trend of pent up straight millenial women, a demographic very integral to fandom spaces, as voyeurs which has been apparent since superwholock and very visibly bleeding into the commercial publishing space
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like this is a growing cultural trend outside of fanart and fanfic. YA romances being published nowadays in the west are written FOR straight adult women and booktok to read and i think that's crazy.
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