Sunday, April 2, 2006

we're just a million little gods causin' rain storms turnin' every good thing to rust
WARNING: The following rant might make some people a little uncomfortable.

I can't quite grasp the causes of the anti-feminist beliefs held by many yaoi/slash fangirls.

I could understand if they, like me, have a general dislike for overly-emotional and/or submissive girls, but if you take a look at about 90% of slash fanfiction posted on the Pit of Voles, the uke of the typical slash pairing is not only characterized as submissive, but also sensitive, emotional, virginal, helpless, and even subservient; basically, they're turned into the stereotypical obedient, housewifey female.

It certainly seems hypocritical of them to blatantly rag on females, then practically turn their male characters into one. The only possible reason I can think of is that most girls are in it for the hot bishounen sex, but have no idea as to how to go about an actual gay relationship. So instead, they stick to what they know--the conventional straight couple.

EDIT: As for the anti-feminism, there may be two general causes. Many girls may feel that their preferred slash pairing is "threatened" by its het counterpart(s) and retaliate because of it. In other words, it has nothing to do with the female characters themselves; just the fact that the pairing is het makes yaoi fans feel threatened by it. For other girls, it may be a case of "monkey see, monkey do." (Admittedly, I blindly agreed with others on fandom-related issues plenty of times in the past.) And for now, I'll leave it at that.

Moving on, I don't normally put non-Japanese songs on here, but I decided I should spread the British rock love: The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (direct link)

Also, I found this thread on the Death Eyes LJ community: The Ongoing Light vs. Raito Debate. I think this comment is especially interesting:

There's no way he can have "Light" as his legal romanization. We have a law on that (in Japan) and we have to follow something called "hebon-shiki," which results his name to be spelled Raito.

So, according to hebon-shiki, my name is Beru. Or for the longer version, berupikkuru. *loves katakana*
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