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[BadMothergrocer]

I frequent two lesbian websites, and I always take to a show that features an amorous lesbian.

That said, I feel that there is an unfair treatment of the carpet-munchers who just want to chew some rug that isn't into pugs.

So maybe it's time that we start honoring our brave women who love women by just talking about how much we adore their love of lady-hole.

And yeah, I'll probably watch A Certain Scientific Railgun eventually.

[JQuest15]

Gotta love Railguns.

[BadMothergrocer]

I was going to be a railgun, but then I took a quarter in the knee.

[-Gaynor79-]

End the Yaoi empire! Support Yuri!

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

I support yaoi when it comes to traps or shota, but it just isn't wet enough for me.

[Chappi_The_Rabbit]

Level C is a wonderful yuri anime. The main couple does have wangs, but you could pretend they have vages

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

The Vages of Fear I can handle.

But I don't want to play The Wanging Game.

[LordJupiter]

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-Gaynor79- wrote:
End the Yaoi empire! Support Yuri!

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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I hope you aren't serious. Fujoshi also draw Yuri ya know. I have some Queens Blade Yuri drawn by a girl who does shota yaoi.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

See, that's what I mean. We need a united community of gay and lesbian romance and erotica.

But let me tell you about my Psycho Lesbian program. We help these labia-lovers with stalking, finding, and acquiring their paramours. We provide forced weddings, chains and collars, and instructional videos about how to break your lover's hymen and will to resist.

That's why we say at THERAPISTWIZARD headquarters, "You can be the best that she will ever get or no one else!"

[Chappi_The_Rabbit]

All the stuff I know with yuri is stuff that everyone's seen like Azumanga, Baka Breast, and Railgun, so I'm uncultured in yuri comedy

[antithesis_of_it]

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BadMothergrocer wrote:
I was going to be a railgun, but then I took a quarter in the knee.

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I lost all respect for you right here. *shuns*

[-Gaynor79-]

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LordJupiter wrote:

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-Gaynor79- wrote:
End the Yaoi empire! Support Yuri!

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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I hope you aren't serious. Fujoshi also draw Yuri ya know. I have some Queens Blade Yuri drawn by a girl who does shota yaoi.

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I am serious. Yuri often gets overlooked when it comes to these things. Mostly because Yaoi is so polarized. People either really love it or really hate it. But Yuri barely gets any recognition.

[Jubbz]

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-Gaynor79- wrote:

I am serious. Yuri often gets overlooked when it comes to these things. Mostly because Yaoi is so polarized. People either really love it or really hate it. But Yuri barely gets any recognition.

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Oh my goodness, you're one of THOSE people. 

Yuri's been getting too much recognition lately. Hell, it feels like you people find every chance to ship two girls (or two guys together for that matter) the second there's even a SLIGHT hint to YOU. I mean, i find that quite annoying, really.

You say Yuri doesn't get recognition, but look around, dude. There's a crap ton of people who support it and there's even MORE people who decide to ship people together every freakin' chance they get.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

I wish Kaorin's love for Sakaki had been as forward as those other two.

But I guess that makes it cuter.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

Do I care about losing the respect of a stranger on the internet?

Nope, for the best-a.

[-Gaynor79-]

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Jubbz wrote:

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-Gaynor79- wrote:

I am serious. Yuri often gets overlooked when it comes to these things. Mostly because Yaoi is so polarized. People either really love it or really hate it. But Yuri barely gets any recognition.

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Oh my goodness, you're one of THOSE people. 

Yuri's been getting too much recognition lately. Hell, it feels like you people find every chance to ship two girls (or two guys together for that matter) the second there's even a SLIGHT hint to YOU. I mean, i find that quite annoying, really.

You say Yuri doesn't get recognition, but look around, dude. There's a crap ton of people who support it and there's even MORE people who decide to ship people together every freakin' chance they get.

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And yet, when I go to conventions, I am bombarded with Yaoi images and cosplayers. I see booths exclusively selling Yaoi merch. But do I see the same for Yuri? No. I barely see anything Yuri related. Yaoi is over done and over exposed. It's time Yuri got some due notice.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

I'll chime in on this yaoi vs. yuri debate.

I hate to agree with mochi, but yaoi is rarely made as a realistic version of gay relationships. "Seme" and "uke" are well-known labels for yaoi couples, though they are not the same as tops or bottoms but more of a limiting aspect to define the character with one word and little else. Yaoi is made for girls who like to see pretty guys have sex and not much else. I like it fine, but I don't read it for the articles if you get me.

Yuri is popular in the same way: it's for guys who want to see girls make out. However, guys can get off to a dang pair of panties left on the sidewalk, so yuri doesn't even need to have two girls in love with each other. Even a hint of affection is enough to sate, as Erica Friedman of Yuricon puts it, "loser yuri fanboys". Even having one female with strong feelings for another female is enough to ignite a sizeable fire.

Now, what I said above can apply to yaoi, but here's the difference: yuri doesn't have terms for its characters. There's no semes and ukes, and while there may be some loose terms out there, they are not in wide enough parlance to really be indicative of the genre.

That's why yuri, or at least the ones I've read, put a stronger sense of character into the story. Sure, you can look to Strawberry Panic for some titillation, but that depends on how much mileage you get out of girls just making goo-goo eyes at each other. Yaoi doesn't mess around with that; it takes its characters like a man and gives them the sex.

But maybe I'm just crazy.

My point: yuri is popular more as a curiosity, a welcome fetish that has a far better wealth of stories. Yaoi deserves to be done right and taken out of the ghetto of tall guys having short guys be their lovers with evident hesitation for the latter.

If we can make these stories more realistic to actual queerky folks, we can all feel better about getting off to that rich character interaction.

[Chappi_The_Rabbit]

There's just as much yaoi pairings out there as there is yuri, and each has it's avenues with it's own fans (check manga sales for yaoi tastes and anime sales for yuri tastes). Yuri fans are very unopen about their passion in public settings, which is why yaoi fans can go to cons so that they can talk with other fans that share their interests and build a following for what they like. You can't really blame yaoi fans for liking what they do more than yuri fans

[-Gaynor79-]

I'll just toss this into the mix. Skip to about the 40 second mark.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

I think I have a picture of Erika like that.

But yes, I get that there's a lot of enthusiasm for gay sex. Maybe because it's more like jousting?

[-Gaynor79-]

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THERAPISTWIZARD wrote:
I think I have a picture of Erika like that.

But yes, I get that there's a lot of enthusiasm for gay sex. Maybe because it's more like jousting?

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I think swordplay is the word you're looking for.

[THERAPISTWIZARD]

It's something medieval. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[LordJupiter]

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Chappi_The_Rabbit wrote:

There's just as much yaoi pairings out there as there is yuri, and each has it's avenues with it's own fans (check manga sales for yaoi tastes and anime sales for yuri tastes). Yuri fans are very unopen about their passion in public settings, which is why yaoi fans can go to cons so that they can talk with other fans that share their interests and build a following for what they like. You can't really blame yaoi fans for liking what they do more than yuri fans

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[antithesis_of_it]

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THERAPISTWIZARD wrote:
Do I care about losing the respect of a stranger on the internet?

Nope, for the best-a.

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True enough. Doesn't make your joke any less terrible though. Seriously.

[BadMothergrocer]

Sorry I caused you no pain.