Yaoi fans aren't destroying the universe

[rekall]

You know it's kinda (and by 'kinda' I mean very) annoying when fans blame female hate on yaoi fans.

I mean look at the CCS fandom. Most of the Kaho hate comes from the Eriol/Tomoyo fans. And on the flip side of a male getting hated upon for getting in the way of an OTP, most of the Yukito hate comes from the Touya/female-of-their-choice fans.

Or look at the Bleach fandom. The Ichigo/Rukia vs Ichigo/Orihime fights are infamous. I'm not even in that fandom and I've heard about Ruika fans bashing Orihime and Orihime fans bashing Ruika.

In the Reborn fandom one of the first things I saw was Tsuna/Haru fans bashing Kyoko (which was a big factor on why I was never that interested becoming involved in that fandom).

I'm not denying that some yaoi fans bash female characters and some do hate them for solely "getting in the way of their OTP". But it seems ridiculous to single out yaoi fans as the sole reason females get bashed all the time.

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[rekallthegreat.livejournal.com]

I think it might have been on an old discussion of a chapter where the Kyoko bashing happened. They were talking about how worthless Kyoko is while Haru is sooooooo much cooler and how the series would be a complete waste if Tsuna/Kyoko ended up canon instead of Tsuna/Haru.

The endless fangirling really got to me in that fandom. I can fangirl with the best of them but it's not the only thing I want to do in a fandom. Like you said when Tsubasa fanbrats can have better discussions, you know your fandom sucks.

[asdhjfbciwu3487.livejournal.com]

If I had to choose, I'd probably pick Tsuna/Haru since I like Haru a lot, but I think it's really unfair to judge Kyoko since basically the only thing we know about her is that she's very kind and likes cake. Actually, she's pretty much Haru if you take away the craziness and up the cute factor. I find it difficult to hate characters that haven't had much development at all D: (Yet, they love Chrome whom we don't even know that much about either, probably because she looks like Mukuro in female form).

Yeah, I know. It's really pathetic, to put it bluntly. I remember there was some post about Gokudera and in threads and threads of fangirling I tried to start some semblance of analysis/discussion and only ONE person responded.