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>>1972829Thread to discuss the phenomenon of "fujoshi", the women that identify as such and the women who criticise it.
To a latter extent, discuss also the phenomenon of "yumejoshi" and "himejoshi", especially when it comes to the yume vs. fujo feud.
Discuss the history of fujoshism, speculate on its reasons, argue your opinion on it and exchange intelligent views with other farmers.
Topics include:
>Is the fujoshi-to-TIF pipeline real, or merely a symptom of something else?>Do fujoshi self-insert in the uke and/or seme? Or do fujoshi simply look at slash couples in a voyeuristic manner?>What is your view on the early 2000s phenomenon of identifying as a fujoshi "but not supporting real life homos"? >Is being a fujoshi a way of escaping misogyny, or does it reinforce it?>What is your opinion on omegaverse, and the het omegaverse which followed? >Are fujos addicted to pornography? Are yumes?>Why is fujo stuff so popular in Japan, a highly conservative, homophobic and misogynistic society? >Can yumes and fujos be friends?New questions:
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing? >Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they? >Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?>Do you think there is a problemwhen it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?
Be respectful and do not infight. Honest discussion only.
No. 1978414
>>1978385Voice works also don't count apparently, even though those are pretty damn fucking good and there's a lot of them
No reason given at all though
>>1978383There's fujos who self-insert and not every non-fujo is a "hetfag" (AKA likes low quality TL manga), keep coping
With how obsessed you are with denying that fujos ever self-insert, I bet you actually do it yourself from time to time and are too ashamed to admit it kek
Get it through your thick skull: stating simple facts about fujos is not criticizing them
No. 1978480
Let me answer the questions in OP, because everyone here really really wants to know my thoughts on yaoi.
>Do fujoshi self-insert in the uke and/or seme? Or do fujoshi simply look at slash couples in a voyeuristic manner?
100% vouyeristic. It's not even just the sex, but the romanticism is also vouyeristic. It's about the escapism for me.
>What is your view on the early 2000s phenomenon of identifying as a fujoshi "but not supporting real life homos"?
I've been a fujo since the late 90s and I have to say I've never even seen this. Maybe it's bc I'm not american and only learned english much later, but the fandoms I participated in, in my language, were very pro LGBT irl.
>Is being a fujoshi a way of escaping misogyny, or does it reinforce it?
Possibly. I'm a heterosexual man hater, so the aspect of by-women-for-women helps me read about men in romantic and sexual situations knowing that not only are they not real moids, but also they're female fantasies. That makes them non-threatening and it means that they belong to women.
>What is your opinion on omegaverse, and the het omegaverse which followed?
Dislike. I'm into fujoshit for the romance as well as the sex, and omegaverse "romance" really isn't at all. They're not falling in love with each other, they're being commanded by hormones, so there's no need for them to even get to know each other. My dick got hard because of your smell, so we're in love now I guess. Same for het omegaverse. Also the concept of mpreg is nasty to me.
>Are fujos addicted to pornography? Are yumes?
I particularly don't watch porn or read hentai, and I consume very little pornographic yaoi and fanfic. This assumption is misogynistic. You're baasically saying that any degree of sexuality in a woman is an addiction, taking away our right to have a libido.
>Why is fujo stuff so popular in Japan, a highly conservative, homophobic and misogynistic society?
Girl idk.
>Can yumes and fujos be friends?
Why not? Why do we have to fight? Fujos who hate yumes and yumes who hate fujos, please explain it to me.
No. 1978498
>>1978471>the uke is just a girl but maleso… not a girl
get a grip. a dong is a dong
No. 1978629
>>1978480I'm this bitch, answering the other quetsions that I didnt see bc im retarded.
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing? Why not?
>Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?Do they? I don't have many male friends and I don't talk about porn with the ones I do have. I imagine they talk about and share porn and hentai. Just seems like the male thing to do.
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they? They're absolutely not fujoshi. They're women whose brains have been rotted by genderism. I'll go as far as to say that it's all a performance for them. They don't have an inner world anymore, they're completely consumed by the persona they want to project, so much so that they can't differentiate the creature they created in order to be accepted by other gendies on socmed from their real selves. Gendies do not exist unless they're perceived. So, girls who write and who jerk off to FTM porn are simply doing so bc it's the "right side of history" thing to do. It's sad, they have lost the capacity to feel and think for themselves.
>Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?Because women are not supposed to sexualize men. We are allowed to sexualize each other and ourselves. That's why porn for women still focuses on the woman being penetrated, the noises she makes, her expressions, etc., and why women who consume content that sexualizes men, are considered degenerates. We are encouraged to sexualize and objectify ourselves and our peers. The act of being objectified and sexualized is seen as being part of womanhood, because that's what our existance is to society: sex.
>Do you think there is a problem when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?I don't think female sexualization is inherently bad, so no, I don't think there's an inherent problem there. Instances of sexualization can be
problematic, though.
No. 1978670
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
Not likely. They're just straight women who say 2D is better than 3DPD like hentai obsessed moids do
>Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?
Women in fandoms are more social than men for some reason.
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they?
No, and they're dangerously close to falling for the fujo to tif pipeline. Enjoying a vagina on a man is the same thinking as trans people no matter how you spin it
>Why do you think so many supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
It doesn't, it's just a fault of society and how women see themselves in it. Women like to draw the female protagonist as attractive, or they may seem weak and meager because they want to see a shy and timid girl get the boy in life for once. It's projection, wishing they were a stacy, which I understand, but an attractive female protagonist does not mean that it caters to men.
>Do you think there is a problem when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?
Somewhat, but I don't care. I like that the men are hot and cater to women. I just wish there wasn't so much sexual assault or rape. I think that's a problem in a lot of yaoi as well though. I don't know why women have this kink so much
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>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
eh the more i think of it I doubt it. you dont see fully gay men into yuri in the same fashion so called lesbians enjoy yaoi. I've seen gay men that maybe enjoyed the relationship between two girls but it was mainly in a platonic fashion and it didnt go any further than that. "lesbians" that are into yaoi for some reason think of male characters in a sexual manner more often than actual het/bi fujos would kek
>Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?
idk what corners of the internet youre on but every anime/hobby im interested in have moids that are extremely loud about the porn of the characters they consume etc. Its pretty much an expectation. if anything fujos seem to be the ones in there own corners
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they?
yeah as much as men that enjoy yuri pairings with futa in it are still yurifags at the end of the day. its just a fetish added onto another fetish, just for some reason fujos will cope by saying its representation instead of just being real and saying they like drawing men with vaginas and chest scars because they find it hot.
>Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
because men are the ones obsessing over and buying the products. most women are busy living their lives and otaku women that have the money to splurge on their hobbies are rare to come by
>Do you think there is a problem when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?
no
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>>1978727I come share my enlightened knowledge and this is how you treat me
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>>1978002Do fujos ever realize how disgusting and misogynistic they are with omegaverse/mpreg, no amount of cope that it is a apparently 'niche' will dissuade me from this absolute hatred I feel when I see this mocking or comparing actual human pregnancy to their porn addict fetish.
No. 1978747
>Why do you think so many supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
I don't think it actually does.
Now, hear me out, and I can't speak for everything so take this with a grain of salt. I think that, while historically men did have control over what 'content for women' was, over time that has become less so, especially when it comes to self-published content online. Their influence has effected what appears in said content, but it doesn't actually cater to them. There's a whole lot of 'bad code' in the dna of the romance genre, for example, that causes a bunch of seemingly outdated ideas to continuously reappear, and if you shift over to the smut side these tropes only become more obvious and exaggerated as they've also solidified into common enough kinks/fetishes as each generation of writers and readers passes them on to the next and alters them in a game of literary telephone.
This happens even faster with online media, as it has little to no publication requirements. You also see similar things within yaoi/slash as those communities go through trends or bottleneck into niche communities. It's also been discussed previously that, due to it being more prolific/seen as the default, the visual language, tropes and quirks of porn for men end up showing in media meant for women, which can make it confusing at a glance who the work is really for. Hopefully over time this will fall out of vogue as female-oriented smut gains a firmer grasp on its own visual language and shorthands. Sperg over kek
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>multiple tifs openly admitting they transitioned cause of yaoi
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>this retarded thread made it to 3 threads alone
you fuckheads can’t be bothered to have a normal conversation anymore. no more good morning, no more good afternoon, just the same dumb shit bringing fujos to /ot/ so they can ruin the board with their sperging. why can’t the mods just lock this already?
No. 1978885
>Is the fujoshi-to-TIF pipeline real, or merely a symptom of something else?
I don't think being a fujo necessarily causes one to troon out, but it's how gender ideology pairs so well with romanticizing being a man and having a same-sex relationship where the dynamics are (supposedly) more equal. Back then, most fujos were aware they were just women who enjoyed seeing BL and had no problem admitting that, but as gender ideology seeped into fandom spaces and proposed the idea that you can, in fact, be a gay man even if you weren't born as one, a lot of them started calling themselves men. Social contagion played a role in exacerbating this.
>Do fujoshi self-insert in the uke and/or seme? Or do fujoshi simply look at slash couples in a voyeuristic manner?
I don't think fujoshi self-insert, but they definitely lean toward empathizing with one of the characters better. I think it's more obvious if you read any smut fic and notice the way the POV is written. It's usually written from the bottom's POV, and if it's written from the top's POV, it feels strangely focused on the bottom's pleasure and reactions rather than the top's. Of course this is all anecdotal and depends on your fandom/ship.
>What is your view on the early 2000s phenomenon of identifying as a fujoshi "but not supporting real life homos"?
Back then I didn't understand how you can enjoy BL but not support gay men irl, but I can see why now. 2D men are drawn in a style that is aesthetically pleasing, plus they don't have many of the negative traits that real life men have. I think the same argument can apply to yumes liking fictional husbandos, but not wanting to date men irl.
>Is being a fujoshi a way of escaping misogyny, or does it reinforce it?
Most fujoshi just enjoy BL because they like seeing attractive men, and like to see romance on top of that. I never saw the misogyny argument being brought up until fujos were called "gay men fetishizers". I do think some fujos are more critical toward female characters than male characters though. There are times when the male characters genuinely are written better and have more screentime; you'll mostly see this in shounen (because they're male characters written by men), but there are also times when a female character and male character are equally poorly written, but the female character gets shit on way more by fandom. And by shit on, I don't mean that fujos just ignore her, but will go out of their way to write rants on why she's terribly written and such a bad love interest for their favorite male character compared to the male best friend who they ship him with.
>What is your opinion on omegaverse, and the het omegaverse which followed?
It started out as some weird trope where you apply animal dynamics to smut, and has become synonymous with TIF/intersex/PIV sex because of the mpreg aspect. I rarely see this trope written well. The characters are turned OOC to force them to fit into the mold of a dom alpha x sub omega. It feels like I'm reading heterosexual dynamics/BDSM in disguise whenever I give an omegaverse fic a try. Not to mention how the omegas are often feminized and called "wife" or "princess"… I can definitely see why people think this trope is steeped in misogyny.
>Are fujos addicted to pornography? Are yumes?
No, it comes down to the individual. There are fujos who just want to see their favorite boys in fluffy scenarios, and there are fujos who can only talk about gay sex and have to make everything sexual. Likewise, there are yumes who just want to see and make cute content of their husbando, and there are yumes who have to hornypost 24/7 about their husbando's dick.
>Can yumes and fujos be friends?
Yes. Maybe you won't actively engage in each other's content, but you can still support each other.
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
I'll be honest, I have yet to encounter a lesbian fujoshi OR yumejo in my fandom spaces that didn't come across as bi or straight. Many of the lesbian fujoshi I see will actively consume and create M/M smut and talk about dicks, and yes they have admitted to masturbating to it and not just reading/writing for the feels. They rarely talk about female characters/yuri, and if they do, it feels very performative. They think genderbending their favorite yaoi ship in fanart counts as enjoying yuri, but you will never see them talking about canonical female characters or F/F smut. The lesbian yumejo I know is even more blatant in her obvious attraction to men because all she does is write straight sex of herself with her husbando and talks about his dick. I have met one lesbian who does read BL occasionally, but it's only for fun and she doesn't get off to it. She actually reads yuri way more. I don't doubt that lesbians can enjoy BL, I just don't think they're the same as the "lesbian" fujos who are constantly talking about their favorite male characters.
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they?
They are fujoshi who have memed themselves into liking cuntboy fetish/enjoy heterosexual dynamics but feel safer projecting it onto two male characters. There are lots of old-school fujos who have trooned out with the rise of gender ideology, but that doesn't discredit the fact that they were (and still are) fujos. And there have always been fujos who like heterosexual dynamics in M/M ships, and now you see it coming to an extreme with TIFs. You can say that the small, submissive uke x big, aggressive seme trope is no longer popular, but the characterizations are still there. The bottom is more likely to be cared for, protected, and comforted by the top. Most fujos TIFs are straight so they project their heterosexuality onto gay characters.
No. 1978905
>Is the fujoshi-to-TIF pipeline real, or merely a symptom of something else?
Misogyny and autism plays a way bigger role
>Do fujoshi self-insert in the uke and/or seme? Or do fujoshi simply look at slash couples in a voyeuristic manner?
Fujos tend to get attached to ukes more than to semes, sometimes their behaviour reminds me of shoujofags who worship the heroine more. But I don't think it's self-insertion, rather they either see them as a husbando OR they see them as a comfort character or their son. There are some fujo ships where people could argue that self-insertion does actually happen though, like 14 yrs ago sebaciel fujos were definetly self-inserting as ciel. The hotter the seme is, the more you can expect this to happen. But I think usually it's a form of voyeurism or wanting to see their husbando getting pounded cause as I said, ukes are more appealing to fujos. Semes are probably more appealing to yumejoshi
>What is your view on the early 2000s phenomenon of identifying as a fujoshi "but not supporting real life homos"?
It's dumb
>Is being a fujoshi a way of escaping misogyny, or does it reinforce it?
Escaping misogyny to some extent, but at the end of the day it's just a hobby like many other
>What is your opinion on omegaverse, and the het omegaverse which followed?
Gross and retarded and lowkey misogynistic, and I've always hated mpreg and butt babies
>Are fujos addicted to pornography? Are yumes?
Maybe some are, but I'm not
>Why is fujo stuff so popular in Japan, a highly conservative, homophobic and misogynistic society?
BL tends to thrive in conservative societies, like it's banned in china and this is not stopping any chinese fujos
>Can yumes and fujos be friends?
It's super easy if the fujo ships A x B and the yume husbando is an unrelated character like C but if the yume husbando A or B they need to learn to tolerate each other and that might be a bit difficult if the yume is totally against any gay ship
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
Yes
>Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?
Simple, women prefer communities and fandoms and some of them seek validation from their female peers
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they?
Ugh I hate this but technically if they still enjoy the ship in their original form and are not strictly into chopped tits, they are fujoshi. A weird brand of TiF-leaning fujoshi. If they're strictly into chopped tits they're just yume aidens
>Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
Brainwashed to the moid gaze from a young age, it's a systemic problem
>Do you think there is a problem
when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?
Kek yes
No. 1978947
>>1978765 But the thing is what was the logic of there being a panel next to it showing her body? It would have been way more coherent to display her face
in the panel, capturing her expression in the heat of moment lmao
No. 1978948
>>1978946>You have to admit it's really strange to go>nuh I don't want to see m/f relationships but if it's the same coomershit but with m/m I'll vibe with that.No, I don't think it's strange to have different reactions to bad things happening to a woman versus bad things happening to a man.
The reason why it's doesn't get brought up in fujo circles is because that
should be plainly obvious.
Do you think men jerking to ryona go "I love seeing women getting beaten up but if this was a man, I would not be happy about it."
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fujos are based to me only because its one of the few spaces on the internet where AGP's dont gather. I'd rather deal with a confused TIP than a TIM any day of the week.
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>>1978406>Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?I have no idea. I don't mind big titty female MCs but I mind when the male MCs in them aren't nearly as porny and when all the focus is on the woman.
>Do you think there is a problem when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?Yes. Too much fucking focus on the woman. The peak hetero sexy art is when those women who ship Bulma and Vegeta draw them getting nasty because there's an actual heterosexual fun dynamic on display where there is focus on both characters but mostly on the man, because, you know, it's made by a heterosexual woman. I kind of envy fangirls of this ship because they get the real good content. Hetero drawn this way is as good as yaoi drawn with intense autistic love for a ship. (pic not lewd but partially related to what I'm saying)
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Seeing how most people in this thread seem to agree that lesbian fujos are not actually lesbians, what do you think is the cause of this behavior? Lack of self-awareness/extreme autism? IRL man hating? Wanting to be cool with the homos? Internalized biphobia? All of above?
No. 1979195
>>1979181I think this "but they only date women hence they are lesbians" argument is dumb. Are febfems lesbians too? Obviously not. What determines sexual orientation is sexual attraction. A bisexual female can date women her whole life and she still would be a bisexual because she's sexually attracted to males as well even if she doesn't act on it IRL.
>tifs/enbies who only date each other and roleplay yaoiI find it funny that usually those TIFs that you mention will exclusively fuck men once they get on T (possibly the raise in libido makes them realize that they're not sexually attracted to women or not nearly as much as they thought).
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This is how it is.
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>>1979346This is it, girls. It's been solved. We can all go home now
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>>1978406anti fujos still spouting the same old arguments that have been already dismantled…can this thread die already its just the same old slapfight again and again
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>>1979367Ah shit here we go again
No. 1979452
>>1979446Being vague because I'm paranoid, but basically a character that's a perfect green flag, the devoted forever will marry you if you just say it and take care of the house while you work type. Also has a big dick
So yeah never getting a 3dpd like that ever lmao
No. 1979528
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
I know several. They exist, they undoubtedly exist. It didn't make sense at first but after lurking a few fujo threads and sites on the topic, it really started to click and made me feel better for liking yuri despite being a straight woman. Lesbians are so use to seeing other perspectives due to a lack of their own that yaoi just came naturally to them.
>Why do fujos look at, draw and talk about yaoi together, while moids who enjoy hentai do so completely alone in their gooncaves?
Fujos are women and therefore more inclined to social activities and sharing than men. Men are so afraid of gayness that any interactions with other men beyond apefights and bitch slaps is considered gay pussy shit. I'm dead serious about that one. Knew a few guys who unironically didn't care if most of his friend group dies, cuz fuck them am I right? meanwhile women would fight and tooth and nail if it meant helping each other when times were rough.
>Are women who enjoy "male character with chopped tits and/or a vag" actually fujoshi? If not, what are they?
They're fujos with extra steps in my opinion. What it boils down to is the uke is often seen as woman so naturally the tif takes the uke and does so but keeps the seme intact for whatever reason. It's why you rarely see a cis uke and trans seme because the tif is projecting projecting herself to the uke, thus making them more like them.
>Why do you think so many supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
As long as men have a say in works besides more niche mediums, straight romance will always be marred by pozzed character development, sexist tropes, and ass backwards premises that wouldn't be out of place in a braindead fanfiction. You could have swore a 13 year old boy wrote some of them until you realized the huge pickme problem in booktok lately.
>Do you think there is a problem when it comes to female sexualization when it comes to josei smut?
I read het romance to see two hotties doing the deed but I am partial to the fmc being the homely one while the mmc is considered the hot one. One too many times have media sold the hot wife ugly husband trope that started becuase insecure moids hated the thought of women settling for actual chads and not fail males.
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>Is the fujoshi-to-TIF pipeline real, or merely a symptom of something else
All he/hims I ever have encountered was into some form of gay shipping - anime or not, that’s just what I know firsthand.
>Are fujos addicted to pornography? Are yumes?
Once again, I am talking about people I knew/knew of. I have plenty weeb and nonweeb slashers who are into gay male relationships, inevitably into porn of that kind also. And for them it’s always about gays, anything at all: being this ancient philosophy or kiddie morning show. Everybody gay, if they do show some signs of not being gay, specifically - oh that’s because they are internally confused or something. Every interaction of people/characters are about sex, there is no other possibilities. I don’t know, I’d say if your mind occupied by porn categories, then yes, you are addicted to porn, because you experience the world through porn lens. To complain how fragile and triggered moids are for not getting jokes about how they all fucking in a gym, while, would imagine, wouldn’t be so amused by a moid’s joke about “yall fucking at sleepovers” or whatever - I don’t know even. You could say “but it’s different because misogyny”, but the fuck it’s not - the same pornbrain mentality, imo.
Yume pornbrain - from what I saw in the wilderness - is similar, especially when there are certain unusual preferences - it’s shoving sex stuff into everyday life, projecting, sexualizing, sharing their distorted reality.
Both cases are all about obsession of something romantic and thus something sexual - do they look for romance in porn? Or do they “shield” by romance to obsess over porn? I am not an expert on male gay romance manga or media overall - is nonporn bl more popular than pvp? Like, you know, shoujo romance is more popular than tl. Is this about looking for a woman-written love story without any possible distractions for one’s vulnerability? And most of what they get is porn, because editors think “sex sells”? Idk because there is a giant mass of nonprofit gay pornfics.
>Are lesbian fujoshi actually a thing?
Aprox 80% slasher/fujo girls I know are some kind of “lesbian”. I use ironic quotation exactly because it’s dubious and just stupid. Okay, woman-written romance, okay no misogyny. But like. Being a lesbian and being obsessed over some korean moid or a harem of several male characters. What. Roleplaying male gay sex with gf, sex in cosplay of said male characters. Multiple merchandise, memorabilia of some moid/s. Point of having a naked sexualized fanart of a geriatric man on your phone wallpaper while being a lesbian? Userpics of k webnovel muscleman? Writing literal love poems on socials to a male character? I just don’t get it. I am straight and do have a waifu (I know, cringe), but I don’t what her to be engaged in any sexual activity, maybe slightly erotic. So it’s a mystery, mindset like that.
>Why do you think so meny supposed straight content made for women caters to men?
Because they made hentai for men and tl also for men and women, trying to cater to everyone - hrr drr there is a female in the straight story after all, so there is a female body we can use, so why don’t we do it. This is ultra dumb. Seeing japanese smut for women (presumably) and seeing that the focus is always fucking always on female body, often her chest, take a look, nearly every manga cover depict a guy undressing a female mc. And in sex scenes they always undress female characters ignoring male ones. So when big companies artists are doing this (because of editors and creative effective whatever managers), of course indie artists would do the same for money.
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>>1979641>Non porn bl is popular/common enoughNayrt but while non porn BL does exist you should take a stroll down toranoana in Ikebukuro, nonna. 90% of everything in there is porn BL. So it's a bit disingenuous to say that westerners make more porn BL than the Japanese, from first-hand experience that's not the case at all. I'd say both sides have an even share of non-porn to porn BL with porn BL overwhelmingly dominating.
No. 1979703
>>1979689 cover "western" with your finger when reading
>>1979641 if it makes you feel better.
No. 1979754
>>1979746Don't reply to bait,
nonny.
>>1979741idk if I'd call myself a fujo since I read many other genres as well, but I'm doing my nu carnival dailies and poking a dude's nipples as we speak so maybe you can count me in part. I don't frequent the BL thread on /m/ that often though, some crazy troll anon(s?) there had an extreme hateboner for the game and we ended up kicked to a containment thread kek.
No. 1980100
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what is the appeal of this?
No. 1980178
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(bait)
No. 1980227
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>>1980178fixed. fujos hate 3d moids
No. 1980294
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>>1980227Had to fix yours
No. 1980337
>>1980295you really misinterpreted what i said. i don't think periods are inherently degrading. i don't even think they're painful for some people. but a lot of women experience pain on periods, and pain is something no one wants to have
>If you create a scenario where a man can get pregnant, then they aren't men.yes, well, the whole point of my post was women wishing that men could feel the pain women feel
for being female hence being penetrated in their yaoihole, period cramps, mpreg, omegaverse. i don't agree with using that pain as 'revenge' though, i'm not a fujo and have never been into female-ifying male characters, but it's a common enough phenomenon, as
>>1980100 shows
No. 1981285
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>>1969912I know I’m being unnecessarily petty by replying to this a week later but… picrel
No. 1982404
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>>1980100Pathetic yaoi man in pain is cute.
No. 1982541
>>1980286>>1980100Come on this is the same train of thought that leads straight fujos to detest het ships/stories even if they have the same dynamics as their fav bl
Any excuse to justify infantalising women and disassociating from your own experiences as a woman
>>1982404 No. 1982574
>>1982547kek seriously, anons complain about fujos liking le
abusive rape porn!!!! and then go post about how they want to be choked and forcibly bred by their husbando in the hornyposting thread. the only problem they have is that they can't self insert into m/m and that's why they call fujos misogynists, simply for not creating content for them personally.
No. 1983004
>>1982695are you seriously taking this
>>1982404 seriously? it's clearly meant to be joke
No. 1987139
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Why not just create a genderbent at this point instead of doing whatever this is?
No. 1987144
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>>1987139i dont know why you keep posting stuff from yumes instead of fujos. But thank you for introducing me to this autist, she's hilarious. I love her yassified redraws of wolfwood
No. 1987334
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Men with pecs doesn't really make them women, some gay men have always been into the "big pecs and ass" muscle type way back in the 50s before twitter porn, pic related.
No. 1988692
>>1988682You know what
It doesn't even matter what kind of het ship it is. Most of the users here view het ships and stories as nothing short of humiliation. It's that fucking "all straight sex is rape" radfem analysis isn't it.
I hope you all mentally heal this is so exhausting and boring. Fans and fujoshis on other platforms are less mentally deranged than users here because they're not very self aware.
No. 1988828
>>1988817Lol coping fujo, as if the ukes in your stories are not tifs who look and get treated like women.
Het is bad, but the seme and secondary characters perpetuating misogyny on the tif-looking uke is sooo much better.
You are so woke and feminist anon. Totally not fake or hypocritical and in no way justifying your gay porn addiction.
No. 1988834
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>>1988828>ukes are TIFsRemember anons, if you are attracted to this, you are a lesbian
No. 1988840
>>1988834>using picrel as a exampleI laughed ngl
>>1988830Oh
nonnie bless your retarded soul. You obviously are reading that since you read BL
No. 1988853
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I want a poll to know how many LC fujos think that reading yaoi is a sign of homosexuality and how many think it's not
No. 1988858
>>1988828Weird, I've never met a TIF with a dick and balls. But also,
>justifying your gay porn addiction.So is BL het or gay? You can't have it both ways.
No. 1988862
>>1988858Ah yes their uber small micropenises how could i not forget.
>>1988853Most fujos here pretend to be totallly against troons or gay-men so they can fit in with the others in this site. But outside of this site the majority of fujos are supportive of gay-men, troons and many fujos do fall into some troon category whether its identifying and a any-pronoun or they/them enby to being a actual tif.
I think that should answer your question.
No. 1988871
>>1988867Yes and they don't. The people pushing for that shit were literally fujos who claimed to be lesbians. Weird of you to blame fujo autism on us.
The consensus has always been that it's repackaged het without the actual woman but instead a self insert pseudo-woman.
No. 1988891
>>1988888Wasn't that because antifujos kept asking for enemas and realistic sex and saying that it not being shown means tifs or some shit?
Then censored examples were shown that it is a thing and the whole argument to begin with was retarded.
No. 1988901
>>1988897i don't (really) agree that it's "vaginal" but usually it's just to clown on fujos who romanticize anal sex, not like wanting the grosser alternative, more like wanting all of it to disappear lmao
>>1988900surely you're not talking about people thinking anal sex is gross because it is i'm sorry
No. 1989006
>>1989005>sodomitestf is this language, are you a 1650s puritan or what
>So you fantasize about sodomites but pretend they're not like irl sodomites. it's a fantasy. it's fiction. if people can make shit up about talking animals or space battles they can make shit up about unrealistic gay sex. m/f content is full of idealised moids and unrealistic sex as well.
>if someone made a pedophilia story minus sex that would still be exploitative and gross.retarded comparison. paedophilia always equals rape. gay sex doesn't. you just have a problem with homosexuality
No. 1989011
>>1989005You seem to willingly ignore the fact that I mentioned het sex acts too. If I read a story (and here I'm using a made up example just so you know) of a female character having a ONS with a male character without any kind of protection or sparing even a second thinking about the possibility of catching an STI from them, then according to your logic I encourage woman to have unsafe sex in RL? That's so dumb.
And just the fact that you not only use the term sodomite but also in the same breath as pedophilia tells me everything I need to know about you. No one here is defending pedophilia, but fake gay anal sex only becomes a problem when you start thinking it works like that in RL. Which, even in the times of tifs taking over fandom, hardly anyone actually believes.
No. 1990189
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I know it doesn't happen as much with lcf fujos and older fujos for that matter but the "female in the way of the gay ship" thing is tiring. I see it a lot with gendies and gay "men" TIFs more though, and they have a variety of excuses too that don't always hold up too. I don't know the point of this post, but I hope to write good female characters someday. If anything to make the problem of badly written female characters a little better, maybe then m/f will start to become more interesting to others and me as well. Yeah, there will always be fags and insecure tards who will hate a female character for that reason but if the majority of the cases can be avoided, I think it's worth it.
No. 1990907
>>1990189>female in the way of the gay shipI’ve never understood why people focus so much on fujos hating love rivals when
nobody like love rivals, fictional or not. It’s common among all sorts of fans and media and in real life too. It’s not a fujo-specific thing at all. Nowadays though I don’t see much character-bashing outside of “moral” reasons. I don’t think it’s a writing issue like you said.
No. 1991579
She's right, y'know
No. 1991586
>>1990859fat asses are nice kek. There's a bit of limit to it, especially when the proportions look grotesque but
>>1987139 pic rel looks tame, way tamer than what bara artist cook up. I don't know why some nonas think it's look retarded?
No. 1991592
>>1991586That goes way beyond my limit sorry.
>I don't know why some nonas think it's look retarded?because it looks like a woman's body. It's just another version of "draw a girl, call it a boy." Not just because of the ass, the entire figure is an exaggerated hourglass.
No. 1991600
>>1990189TBH, nowdays female characters in the way of a yaoi OTPs aren't hated as much anymore. I think the early 2010s made the fandom at large realize that the hatred some of the targeted female characters got was excessive and borderline misogynist (unsurprisingly, I've seen many of those haters have now turned to genderism and they're TIFs, enbies, etc).
However, they found new lame excuses to pull said female characters away from their targeted male characters. Bullshit like saying she's the "mom friend" of the group, turning any female character in the way of their OTP into lesbians in the most insencere and uncaring way (a beloved thing by the Ace Attorney fandom), et cetera. Honestly this feels more annoying to me than the sincere hatred of old internet fandoms, because there's nothing I like less than people pretending they're into female characters they otherwise wouldn't even write about.
The best way to ignore a character in your fanworks is to just ignore them, I have no idea why these performative online theathrics are so necessary to some fujos.
No. 1991605
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>>1991598That's silly, in my country we care about the moids' butts because flat butts are lame. And I personally believe butts are important for everyone because the butt protects these bones during a fall.
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Ancient farmers being dismayed at flat male butt, 490 BC
No. 1991675
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>>1989033Yeah it’s called selfcest
No. 1991685
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>>1990189I see this more with yuri fans than any other group nowadays, dudes can’t even take a MALE DOG being near their yuri girls.
No. 1991938
>>1988817>but because the dynamics aren't equal.Massive cope that doesn't make sense when popular BL/fujo content is all about unequal dynamics. Especially when it gets into the omegaverse and we're all pretending that they're 2 male characters.
Seeing how BL evolved in western media is such a blackpill honestly.
No. 1991941
>>1991579I wish she'd drop the "queer audience" part, they keep saying that so people can stop attacking het women for fetishizing gay and to focus on the actual discourse.
I just realised how dumb this whole thing is and yet it's the reason why no female fan wants to create any story that revolves around women. It's fascinating how despite 5 years of "I drink male tears' feminism on tumblr it amounted to nothing. They now just dress up their animosity or indifferent for female characters by going focusing on "omg gay babies" it's like a weird shift from the straight girl and gay bff (which is now evil).
No. 1991942
>>1991692>self-insertingsays who? I don't even get this argument. No one is self-inserting with Katara especially since she used to bear the brunt for so much hate in the fandom.
and the uke shit isn't self-inserting?
No. 1991950
>>1988810It's fascinating how you can have a FL and ML (sorry for using kpop terms) so they're literally WRITTEN to be for each other, if it's a well written story it will not feel forced and yet
> het is forcedI feel like they this is a slurry of tumblr LGBT posts that led to this dumb idea.
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>>1991973>absolutely worst female character in all of ATLA>nothing but self insert fuel>zuko is just a bad boyTell me you don't watch or understand Avatar without explicitly saying you don't watch or understand Avatar. I get that you want to win an argument, but God you are grasping at straws right now. I'm not even the anon you were responding too.
No. 1992041
>>1992010I agree, I think it's stupid that the writers chose to make bloodbending as this inherently evil sub-element, but I don't see how that would make Katara the worst female character in the entire show. It was all on Bryke when they chose to
write Hama as this evil bitch who needed to stay locked up, Katara was
not the one to blame for that kek
No. 1992156
>>1991938omegaverse is really not as common as anons here keep making it out to be
>in western mediaah that explains it
No. 1992206
>>1992170You claiming "all het ships are like that" doesn't make it a fact. It's your own fault for seeking out weird
shit specifically, there are all types of het content.
Also gross rape is gross rape, being m/m doesn't make it less disgusting, slightly easier for the female readers to distance themselves from the imagery perhaps. But women can be anally raped too so it's still plenty horrifying for empathic readers. Rape isn't an universal fetish either fujos or yumes have.
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>>1992156It was popular enough to get a game at least
>>1992170>How is that comparable to submissive waif and pig who wants to put her in a cageJokes on you I want Toma niisan to put Shin in the cage.
No. 1992301
>>1990907They focus on fujos because it's the only fanbase where women are into men without the male gaze, narcissistic pickmes can't get into it.
it's plain misogynistic to only focus on female fandoms but
the fragile fictional characters are more important.
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Regarding the whole "anal sex in yaoi is unrealistic" argument, do people bothered by this not have sexual fantasies of their own? Some sentiments in this thread seem to come from people who flat-out don't understand the appeal of erotic fiction, and explaining to them why it depicts sex in an idealistic fashion is like explaining colors to a blind person.
No. 1992357
>>1979623>Aprox 80% slasher/fujo girls I know are some kind of “lesbian”. I use ironic quotation exactly because it’s dubious and just stupid. Okay, woman-written romance, okay no misogyny. But like. Being a lesbian and being obsessed over some korean moid or a harem of several male characters. What. Roleplaying male gay sex with gf, sex in cosplay of said male characters. Multiple merchandise, memorabilia of some moid/s. Point of having a naked sexualized fanart of a geriatric man on your phone wallpaper while being a lesbian? Userpics of k webnovel muscleman?I made the same observation.
I just don't get it, shouldn't they head over heels over female characters?
No. 1992358
>>1992294>it has literally never been two men abusing each other or loving each other, deep down I feel you know this as well.Do you mean cunt "boy" which is just deranged spicy straight shit?
>>1992206>It's your own fault for seeking out weird shit that is the mainstream de facto.Gaslighting. 90% of media centers on women being manipulated, if adult centered raped and abused or gaslit in someway. Genuinely fuck off with this dogshit comparison and moral good woman olympics. Being a moral fag over males will earn you nothing in return.
>slightly easier for the female readers to distance themselves from the imagery perhapsNot "perhaps". Entirely. Women are not men.
No. 1992366
>>1992358that's not what I mean, all bl features a
toxic heterosexual relationship.
No. 1992374
>>1992358>Women are not men.Of course women are not men, did I claim otherwise? I don't need a dick to be grossed out by imagery featuring rape. (Before you go off on a tangent confusing me with some other anon who has never touched BL in her life, I do read/watch BL content, with or without rape (Ijust judge the overall quality of the work, the presence of rapists makes sense in some edgy story settings), I just don't coom to the rape part or pretend it's somehow different from other types of female oriented media when it comes to rape
>Being a moral fag over males will earn you nothing in return.TIL being being against rape as principle is being a moral fag for men, I see. Oh well, keep seething that others don't share your rape fetish
No. 1993188
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>>1992091>>1992091>blandNo. Let’s take this from the top.
Katara is introduced as a lively character with her own dreams of understanding her own waterbending, despite her life of regularly providing for her village ever since the Fire Nation’s war on the rest of the war took her parents away and literally forced her to grow up fast. The very beginning of the series opens up with Katara calling out Sokka’s shitty sexist attitude and ungratefulness of everything Katara does to provide for him, the village’s children, and to work with the women that were left behind at home. Katara even mentions that between them, it was her that took on most of the work to keep the village alive. Katara is generally selfless, but does NOT like to take shit from other people. Katara will endure responsibilities and the toll that life puts on her, but when external forces pile on and reach above her limit, Katara gets strikingly upset and even Sokka can think it’s scary. Katara is so passionate about waterbending, especially as the last known member of the Southern Water Tribe, that she basically tells Sokka to shut the fuck up when he tries telling her to give up teaching herself. She is passionate about her bending abilities, and just wants Sokka to be more respectful and encouraging of her potential and effort to connect with her own powers. Katara’s waterbending is shown to be connected to her emotions, and the raw power of her waterbending (although untrained) is so strong that she accidentally broke down a glacier, revealing Aang trapped in an iceberg. Katara doesn’t know Aang at this point, but is so kind-hearted with a core instinct to aid others that are in need, that she breaks open the iceberg and frees the last airbender from his frozen avatar state; reviving the avatar back into the world and
kickstarting the show as we know it. Before I go on, I want to remind you and anyone else reading this that Katara is only
fourteen now.
I would also like to mention that Katara is so passionate about waterbending, that upon setting foot in the North Pole, she challenged Pakku about his sexist beliefs and FOUGHT him to put HIM in his place. Of course, she loses, but her relation to Pakku’s love (Gran Gran) allowed her foot in the door to study under his guidance. Katara, Sokka, and Aang have been at the North Pole for months. All day, for months, Katara has been learning and training with the greatest waterbender in the world, again and again, to become a decent waterbender. Despite the Northern Tribe’s sexist attitudes, Katara has worked her ass off trying to understand waterbending, putting in her heart and soul to get good at it. This shows how determined Katara is when she cares about something. Katara didn’t understand much about how to properly waterbend, yet now she actually knows what she’s doing. Her power grind is no joke, as Master Pakku even says that Katara is the greatest student he’s ever had (IIRC). IIRC again, Iroh at some point in an avatar related-media, gives his opinion on Katara and even says it himself that she’s the greatest waterbender in the world at her peak. People calling Katara a mary-sue don’t know what a mary-sue is. If Katara was a mary-sue, she would have beaten Master Pakku with out-of-nowhere “girl power” or some shit. If Katara was a mary-sue, Ty Lee wouldn’t have gotten the drop on her as much as she did. People say that Katara is a mary-sue because she beat Azula at the last Agni Kai, but Azula was having a literal mental breakdown. Had it not been for Azula playing dirty, Zuko would have won that fight by himself, and even then he says he was able to fight Azula better because she was
losing it.
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>>1993188Part 2.
As if it hasn’t just been talked about already, now we’ll go into depth at what everyone loves to bitch about when it comes to Katara’s character. What makes her bullied for being the “mom”; Empathy.
After Katara’s own mother was killed at the hands of Fire Nation forces, Katara has been forced to grow up, think, and act like an adult starting at a very young age. This meant watching over and providing for what was left of her village, populated by just women, children, and elders. This was pushed even further by the fact that her father (and the rest of the men) left the Tribe to go and fight as an alliance of rebels against the Fire Nation. As her early and serious new purpose was forced upon her by the war, this meant becoming extremely close and familiar with the other Water Tribe residents, making her neighbors more like family at that point. When cooperating with family, it is natural and vital that one learns to think and care about others. Especially when your family is war-torn, and easy to dismantle should not enough needs be met. Combined with doing this for almost several years, Katara's sense of open-heart becomes cemented into her psychology. Watching over others, patting their backs, being a shoulder to cry on, stitching up their clothing, treating their injuries, and making sure everyone is fed and alive is an instinct for Katara at this point in her life. As Katara is hyper-aware of other people’s feelings, she’s hesitant to give Aang the tragic news of his race being genocided off the map. Then when Aang discovers that the rest of his kind really is gone due to the Fire Nation, Katara is the main character that reaches out to Aang to soothe and reassure him, despite the horrible news. Katara calms Aang down from his angry avatar state, and succeeds at guiding him back to focus. Empathetic, Katara explicitly tells Aang that she understands his pain, as she and Sokka have also lost many tribe members and even some family members to the Fire Nation as well. During their journey with Katara teaching Aang some waterbending she taught herself, she quickly learns from Aang that he responds better with positive reinforcement. When Aang feels like he’s a failure to his job as the avatar, it’s normally Katara that’s the one picking him back up and telling him that he IS worth a shit. Through emotional AND physical aid, Katara was the one keeping Aang going. When someone is feeling down and borderline suicidal, Katara is the one chasing their self-doubt away. She did this with Haru, she did this with imprisoned earthbenders, and she even did this with Zuko when he doubted Iroh forgiving him. Katara’s heart is enormous, and this is shown through her actions of
constantly trying to save and keep other people alive. The Desert Episode. After Appa got kidnapped, Aang became the opposite of what he normally was: cold, depressed, and irrationally pissed off. For the majority of time after Appa got kidnapped, Aang fucks off from the group to go find him, which left Katara alone with the rest of the team. Sokka was desperate for water, and drank cactus juice with Momo, leaving them both high and out of their minds as hell. Not very helpful in a desert. Then there was Toph, whose seismic sense was rendered useless because of the grainy texture of the sand. This made Toph completely blinded this time. Also not so good. So how does Katara react to this scenario? She creates a hand-holding line so that everyone is holding each other to prevent anyone getting strayed and lost. When someone is thirsty, she uses the water from her pouch to hydrate them and prevent dangerous levels of thirst, even with the pressure of being a waterbender in the middle of the desert and with limited water source. We never see Katara drink the water herself. She is using her only means of water on her brother and “new family”. She keeps reminding everyone that they must focus on getting to Ba Sing Se. Katara understands that this is a dire situation, and even though she is more than likely uncomfortable as all hell in this episode, she puts her fear and frustrations aside to focus on keeping everyone together and breathing.
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>>1993193Next, let’s address the misconception that Katara is just a nagging bully to Toph, because yes—there are ATLA fans that actually think that.
Starting out with Toph’s origins: Toph comes from a wealthy family that gives her everything she wants, shelters, and pampers her incessantly because she’s blind and a child. But because they’re overprotective of Toph, she realizes how much her parents have been holding her back from exploring the world, exploring earthbending, and exploring who she really is as a person. This makes her more attracted to individuality, the mindset of putting yourself and your own independence first. As Toph embraces individuality, she becomes very comfortable with being herself, a brutally honest tomboy who isn’t afraid to get loud or to start a fight.
On the contrary, there’s Katara. Katara used to live a more normal life with her mother and father in the picture. But just like the Fire Nation taking away all the other waterbenders from her tribe, they took the lives of her tribe’s residents, including her mother—which in turn, forced her father to leave the picture of the tribe as well. Katara’s family was damaged and fractured out of her control, forcing her to “man-up” and work for the closest she can get to a happy family since. Katara being forced to work for what others need and at such a young age is a foil to Toph’s origin, because Katara couldn’t afford to grow tired of her family and get selfish. Whereas Toph was molded to idealize strict individuality to care for herself, Katara was raised to embrace a compassionate sense of collectivism to care for others. This is why they butt heads so much. Katara got upset with Toph not helping out with the team, once Toph joined them. Toph responds that she shouldn’t have to directly help the team if she’s pulling her own weight (which in her mind means that she owes them nothing). Katara tries to take a casual approach with getting Toph to participate by helping the team set up camp, since Sokka and Aang were acting dumb as hell. Katara even apologizes for any bad impressions. Yet, despite Katara’s politeness, Toph keeps interrupting Katara, and disrespectfully spits her apology back at her. Of course, Katara is back to being irritated. Shit happens, and the team is extra tired from barely getting any sleep. Shit goes down, and Toph leaves after Katara and Aang had enough of Toph’s shit. Yeah, they make up at the end of the episode, but look at the subtext of Katara’s conflict with Toph. It’s obvious that Toph had a problem with Katara’s effort to look out for and get everyone active on the team because it reminded Toph of her own parents constantly breathing down her neck and getting all up in her ear with commands. However, Iroh was able to teach Toph that allowing others to help you is not inherently a sign of weakness. Though, that’s not the end of the conflict between Katara and Toph. In the third season, Katara and Toph get into it when Toph says that Katara doesn’t know how to let loose and have fun, in response to Katara using her past experience of stealing from pirates and suggesting that the team cool down with scamming to avoid attracting suspicion and bad attention. Toph calls Katara “sourpuss”, but Katara sees right through Toph and addresses Toph with tact and accurate analysis: that Toph is guilty about running away from her parents in pursuit of independence, so to shoo away the guilt, Toph goes around and dives head first into doing whatever she wants and trying to convince herself that she hates them. Katara is normally soft-spoken and empathetic with others when addressing them or their behavior, but because just being soft-spoken doesn’t work on Toph, Katara noticed that and gave Toph her own energy back; by being brutally honest. This pissed off Toph a little. Katara senses that something is fishy about Toph and Sokka’s behavior, and digs through some of Toph’s things. Katara learns that her intuition was right through the wanted poster of Toph, but this instinct to always watch over other people and make sure they’re okay has crossed some of Toph’s boundaries. This reminds Toph of her own parents, to which Toph calls Katara out on it. This officially establishes Katara’s core flaw: when she lets her attention and drive to keep everyone safe cross boundaries and become overwhelming.
Now, it is up to Sokka to fix things between Katara and Toph. However, when Sokka confronts Toph about her falling out with Katara, Sokka reveals some details about Katara that establishes how objectively important she is to Sokka’s literal will to keep trying at life. That although Katara can be overwhelming at times where stress is high, Katara is still a pivotal aspect of his life since his mother died. Since the death of their mother, it was actually Katara that stepped up to be his shoulder to cry on, and his personal cheerleader to keep getting up and living life despite the massive loss. Since their mother was gone, it was Katara that was taking care of him IN PLACE of their mother. Katara was so important to Sokka’s survival growing up, that when he tries to remember the face of his mother, he just sees Katara’s. Toph, listening and realizing just how important Katara really is to the team, lets it all out that Katara isn’t necessarily a bad or a shitty person. That despite Katara having her obnoxious moments, her empathetic nature is soothing for Toph. That the love Katara has for the team and even Toph herself is on a level Toph never really felt before. The difference between Katara’s compassion and Toph’s parents’ compassion is that Katara is objectively less hands-off when she’s confronting her teammates about their behavior. Although Katara pulled out the wanted poster and kept telling Toph that (about the scams) enough is enough, Katara doesn’t try to actually FORCE Toph to do what she suggests. Katara does this because she personally knows how bad stealing/scamming can get, and wants Toph to grow as a person by not being reckless all of the time. Toph’s parents hired people to kidnap Toph back to her home, and were overprotective specifically because they wanted Toph to stay the helpless little blind girl they wanted her to be. This is where Toph realizes that she fucked up by internally overreacting and jumping to the fear that Katara was just like her parents.
Then Katara and Toph get locked up when their scam backfires thanks to Combustion Man doing what Katara initially predicted, by catching onto them. They sit in the jail cell, as they converse about their differences. Katara admits that she just wanted to prove that she can be fun too, and not just “motherly” all the time. This shows that even when Katara wasn’t getting along with Toph, Katara was still listening to Toph when she handed out criticism of how she was being. Katara wants to be liked and to fit in with her teammates, something more than just her instincts telling her to keep track of her team, wash clothes, and stew dinner. Toph reassures Katara that she IS fun, at least to argue with. Katara apologizes for being brutally honest with Toph about her parents, to which Toph confesses that Katara had a point, actually. Toph DOES love her parents, and was worried that she hurt them by running away for independence. Toph begins to cry, trusting Katara enough to open her weakness, to which Katara embraces Toph to comfort her. Later, after escaping Combustion Man, Toph trusts Katara enough to ask her for help, to which Katara naturally agrees. Katara helps Toph write a heartfelt letter to her parents, and sends Sokka’s messenger bird to deliver it. With the help of Katara, Toph learned to be more open about her own true feelings and thoughts, to be less reckless, and to think more about others while also acknowledging the importance of self. Katara helped bring Toph to a balance. Katara learns from Toph that being a child isn’t inherently the behavior or mindset of being child
ish. Being a child is a state of being and regardless of how mature Katara is, she is still a child just like Toph at the end of the day. Not an adult. Toph taught Katara that although it’s not good to be reckless all the time, fun is still important in order to rest her nerves and enjoy the day when she can. So Toph also brought balance to Katara.
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>>1993197Then let’s go into Katara’s morality
The thing about Katara isn’t just that she’s empathetic and usually very considerate of how other people are feeling and doing, Katara also has a mature, level-headed outlook on how she views different aspects of the war. Specifically, I’m talking about what separates her from characters like Jet. Katara has trauma, however she is mature enough to handle her trauma better than Jet. Katara doesn’t let her trauma take over who she is, including her sense of what’s right and wrong. Katara doesn’t let the Fire Nation’s destruction of her Tribe and family stop her from acknowledging when somebody is in dire need of help, like when Katara quickly offered to heal Iroh after Azula blasted him and despite the fact that she
knows Iroh is from the Fire Nation. The Fire Nation has a monstrous force that’s oppressing the world, but Katara will call a spade a spade when she encounters a harmless or even helpful Fire Nation civilian. After meeting Jet, Katara is forced to learn the basic, yet useful lesson that you can’t trust or assume that somebody is a good person just because they have a sorry backstory and a nice face. Katara approached Jet with open arms and compassion for him, yet he lied to and betrayed her so he could kill innocent civilians just because Fire Nation soldiers were in their village. Katara is rightfully offended and deeply “cut” from Jet, taking advantage of her giving him the benefit of the doubt, as it’s pretty insulting to her nature of having a big heart. Jet’s episode is the introduction of one of the things that hurts Katara the most; betrayal. When Katara meets Zuko in the catacombs of Ba Sing Se, the scene exposes that even though she and Zuko were on opposite sides of the war, Katara can pick up on when another person is sincerely open about their internal conflicts (Zuko losing his mother), and still empathize with them. From learning that she has some aspects of her life in common with Zuko, Katara begins to see Zuko in a different light. Katara begins to learn that Zuko isn’t just an angry soldier boy who wants to serve Aang’s head on a platter just because his father said so. Katara realizes that Zuko is still human like everyone else, with hurt like her and anyone else. Immediately, she realizes that Zuko’s nation is not healthy for him, and offers him the advice of what her element of water symbolizes: change. Katara offers Zuko to change his lifestyle of wanting to appease his
abusive father and dysfunctional society for the greater good for himself, and the rest of the world. Katara is one of the only three people that directly reached out to Zuko to basically tell him that he’s better than being a soldier for the Fire Nation’s war-mongering and supremacist ideologies. The other two being Iroh and Aang. Like with Toph, it’s not just that Katara empathizes with other people; Katara wants troubled people to grow and become better. When Zuko explains that he viewed his scar as the mark of what the Fire Nation pushed him to do, Katara offers to heal his scar, literally wanting to get rid of Zuko’s loyalty to such an unhealthy set of beliefs and lifestyle. But before Katara could use her spirit water, she and Zuko are interrupted and separated. Then the betrayal happens. After finding common ground, learning that Zuko is more like herself than she initially believed, developing a slightly bleeding heart for him, understanding and telling Zuko that he doesn’t have to remain loyal to such a nation that mistreats him and his mother, and even almost healing his scar with the spirit water, Zuko still chooses to side with Azula, and what happens when he sides back with the Fire Nation? Katara and Aang get jumped by Zuko, Azula, and the Dai Li, Aang temporarily DIES because of Azula’s lightning, and Iroh himself gets locked up. Imagine how motherfucking shaken Katara must have felt at her core, when Zuko basically said “fuck you” at this event. After this point, shit starts to get real for Katara’s emotional journey, because this is the second time she got betrayed and this betrayal resulted in serious consequences. The Katara we’ve seen in season one is changing into a more serious person, as it becomes clearer than ever that this world can and will stomp all over her bleeding heart. Still empathetic and morally adjusted, but exterior changing into a more “solid” one. However, it’s not just because of Zuko. There’s Hama’s impact.
Katara meeting and learning from the first last bender of the Southern Water Tribe; Hama.
The team meets a kind, elderly lady that seems to be native to the Fire Nation. She takes interest in Katara, and starts to grow on her. However, Sokka picks up that Hama must be hiding something from the team, and begins to snoop through her home. Katara learned from Toph that it isn’t right to just go through other people’s shit but knowing that Sokka is usually a good judge of character (like from the Jet episode), she hesitantly follows along with Sokka finding and trying to open a hidden treasure box. Hama already knew the kids were going through her shit, and opens the box just to reveal a Southern Water Tribe comb, simultaneously revealing her true origin. As Hama is a waterbender herself, Katara is thrilled and (pun intended) over the moon that she ISN’T the last waterbender of the Southern Tribe. That she’s finally found someone just like herself in that sense, happy to know they haven’t entirely just disappeared from the world. Hama tells Katara the story of why the southern waterbenders have disappeared (they were kidnapped), in which Katara empathizes and shares to Hama that she and Sokka lost their mother because of the Fire Nation looking for more waterbenders. Katara and Hama realize just how alike they are, not just through bending and ethnicity, making Hama offer to teach Katara waterbending techniques that Master Pakku didn’t. Hama teaches Katara just how “everywhere” water actually is, and how embedded with life their element really runs. From the moisture in the air, the liquid from plants, to the sweat on your skin, Hama helps Katara realize just how resourceful waterbenders can be, and is pleased when Katara shares that she had to use her sweat to escape a jail. Like with Katara teaching Aang the waterbending she taught herself despite the Fire Nation’s oppression, Hama is literally doing the same for Katara. However, Katara views waterbending more as an art than Hama does, in which Hama views their powers as a high-tier resource for survival. Hama is much more of a pragmatist, demonstrated when she kills a bunch of fire lilies in order to draw water from them. While waterbending and its sub-element of bloodbending is absolutely a high-tier means for survival, Hama took it too far when Katara learns that Hama was also using bloodbending to terrorize Fire Nation civilians who
weren’t soldiers and
didn’t oppress her. Viewing bloodbending as a perverse form of her element, Katara is reluctant to learn the sub-element. But in a tragically fucked up sense, Hama needed more waterbenders to understand just how powerful they really are, the sub-element of bloodbending to ensure that less of them rot away in those prisons. And so, Hama forces Katara to pick up bloodbending, by creating a deadly event in which Hama bloodbends Katara, Sokka, and Aang into almost killing each other. Hama forces Katara to become resourceful, by drawing water from plant life. Hama forces Katara to embrace her final lesson, and just like how Hama learned: Bloodbending for the means of survival. Even after Hama lets herself be arrested and sent away, Hama has successfully doused Katara in her maximum potential as a bender. Even though Katara is left sobbing at the end of the episode for such a traumatic event, Katara is now a fully realized waterbender, even for the water that runs with blood. Then there’s the Day of The Black Sun, where Katara takes down a Fire Nation tower base with her brother and father, but has to stay behind from invading the palace as Hakoda becomes badly injured and she’s the only healer on the entire fleet. Sokka, Toph, and Aang are the ones that have to break into the palace and find Ozai themselves, yet they just run into Azula—who successfully buys time and manipulates them into failing their mission once the sun’s power comes back on. The team fails the mission on the Black Sun, so you can imagine how emotional everybody is feeling because of their loss.
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>>1993199Then, here comes a random Zuko showing up and wanting to join their team after all that fuckshit since Ba Sing Se. Remember how personally Katara takes betrayal? Yeah. We’re about to see that again. In the catacombs, Katara was willing to hear Zuko out, bury the hatchet, heal his scar, and even welcome him on the team. But when Zuko basically said “fuck you” and joined Azula, Katara became naturally on-edge about Zuko’s character. That sweet, huggable, and polite Katara is gone when Zuko tries to join the team. Hama made Katara question her nature as a waterbender, a piece of who Katara is. Now Zuko is showing up out of nowhere, and is making Katara feel even more conflicted. Think about it. Had it not been for Aang and Iroh, Katara was going to use the spirit water on Zuko’s scar. Considering that Zuko immediately reverted back to the Fire Nation right after running into Katara, that scenario would result in Aang getting killed during his avatar state, and Katara not having the spirit water to revive him. Katara’s bleeding heart nature and giving Zuko the benefit of the doubt almost resulted in Aang staying dead, the air nomad race reaching official extinction, and the entire avatar cycle stopping for good because of Aang dying IN the state. Zuko is making Katara’s self-questioning reach for the sky. Then you take in Zuko trying to bribe Katara with her own dead mother’s necklace, having the team kidnapped on multiple occasions, following them across the world to capture Aang and basically fuck over the chances of the Fire Nation being stopped, burning Kyoshi village almost entirely to the ground, and hiring Combustion man to kill Aang (which almost got the others killed too by the way). With all the shitfest of how Zuko made their journeys harder and even more dangerous, imagine how frustrated Katara probably feels when Zuko gets to join the team mainly because Toph said “fuck it”, and because Zuko helped stop them from getting killed by Combustion Man. (It wasn’t even Zuko that stopped Combustion Man by the way, it was Sokka flinging his boomerang that actually killed him and officially ended the hunt). Everyone is having an easier time letting Zuko chill with them, but Katara is not having it because the last time SHE chilled with Zuko, it was catastrophic. Katara does not trust Zuko, and she has more than enough reasons at this point. Katara is so serious and on-guard with Zuko because of the threat she knows he can be to what’s basically her family at this point, that she turns into O-ren Ishii when she threatens to KILL HIM if he
ever tries to fuck them over again. After this, Katara is so venomous to Zuko at any chance she gets, that she fucking laughs and tells Zuko that he isn’t as good of a bender as he thought he was, when he lost his powers. That was so cold, Toph was even amused. But we need to address Katara threatening to end Zuko’s life. That moment was so different from how Katara has been up until that exact moment, that we need to ask ourselves if that’s who, or a part of who Katara is. Then comes ‘The Southern Raiders’.
To Kill or Not to Kill; Yon Rha.
Azula’s attack on the Air Temple, the team turned into a crib, forces Katara to be separated from her father (who had recently been broken out of the Boiling Rock). Right after reuniting with the only parent she has left, Katara is forced to lose him again (even if it’s only temporary) because of a Fire Nation attack. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand how overwhelmed, saddened, and horrified Katara must be feeling. Zuko does his part, and holds off Azula in order to let the team or everyone else get the hell out of there. After escaping, the team lands Appa on a safe spot to set up camp, have some tea and eat some dinner. Zuko jokes about his past of chasing Aang around the world again and everyone laughs, except for Katara who still isn’t convinced to completely trust Zuko. Zuko runs after Katara, trying to confront, open her up, and see what’s the matter with her. The part here is ironic, because it’s basically a reverse of their talk in Ba Sing Se. Now, it’s Zuko’s turn to help Katara’s emotional turmoil and to understand HER. Katara yells at Zuko, lashing out because of dire consequences of his actions in Ba Sing Se and how his actions personally hurt Katara on the inside because of how he (again) basically said “screw you and your side of the war”. Just like before the catacombs, Katara is back to viewing Zuko as the face of the enemy and demands that he make up for his past by liberating Ba Sing Se, or to even bring her mother back; projecting every single Fire Nation action directly onto Zuko, and demanding that he find a way to take absolutely everything back. Jet, Hama, Zuko. That’s three times Katara was horribly manipulated or badly misled by people she thought she could trust. Katara doesn’t have open arms anymore like in season one anymore, Katara learned to officially be on-guard and if Zuko wants in, he’ll have to really prove that Katara should give him a second chance. But Zuko doesn’t throw in the towel and give up on understanding Katara, so he goes to somebody who really knows Katara in order to obtain a greater picture of what Katara has been through, who Katara is, and what Katara needs. Somebody like her own brother, Sokka. Just like that, Zuko offers Katara that he can help her find the man who killed her mother. Now Katara is ready to go. Katara tells Aang and Sokka that she and Zuko are going to find the man that killed her mother, to which Aang and Sokka immediately try to shut that down with Aang explaining that revenge is not what HE believes is right, while Zuko is reiterating that they’re doing this for what Katara says she needs. Up until this point, Katara was usually solving her internal struggles on her own, or (pun-intended) “watering them down” so she can keep herself focused and moving. Here though, Katara is feeling very serious and begins her brutal honesty. Katara is fully aware that Aang is a head-over-heels sucker for air nomad pacifism, despite Katara having to dip her toes into things like bloodbending for the greater good of her own and her friends’ survival. Katara was forced to encounter violence, Katara was forced to grow up faster than Aang, Katara was forced to get “bloody” outside her comfort zone (Hama), Katara learned faster than Aang that the world isn’t so black/white with violence. She knew he wouldn’t understand, and
that’s exactly what she tells him. Sokka is just, and rightfully so, worried about his sister going on such a dangerous mission and becoming a murderer. Sokka is scared that Katara is going to let the death of their mother take over who she is. So he tries to help Katara see that Kya was his mother too, and that not even Sokka himself would want revenge on the man who killed her. Sokka wants Katara to let it go, and go back to being her bubbly self because he believes that’s what she needs. But Katara’s brutal honesty strikes again to tell him the subtext that Katara was simply closer to Kya, and that Sokka didn’t love her quite like she did. Hurtful as fuck, but I don’t disagree with Katara, nor do I think she’s even a “bitch” for saying that. Even when I was a kid, I always got the impression that Katara was closer to their mother, while Sokka was closer to their father. Sokka’s mind doesn’t even remember Kya’s face despite being the older sibling, but Katara loved their mother so much that she remembers the last moments she witnessed of Kya still being alive. Katara loved her mother more than anything in the world, it makes entire sense that Katara would snap into brutal honesty and say that Sokka simply wasn’t as close. On the mission with Zuko, Katara is gradually understanding that Zuko does give a shit about making things up for Katara, and does want to get close to her and be a team. It becomes gradually clear that Zuko is interested in Katara’s story, Katara’s pain, what Katara feels like she needs, and Katara’s mother. So Katara shares more sentimental details about Kya with Zuko, taking him more seriously than ever before as an ally. Katara is so passionate about this mission for closure, that she doesn’t sleep to focus on flying Appa to where they need to be. Katara turns into Beatrix Kiddo onboard a Fire Nation ship to wipe out soldiers with Zuko like they’re Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Katara is so fucking pumped and ready for closure on her mother and what the Fire Nation did to her, that she fucking bloodbends a commander that she thought was Yon Rha. She bloodbends him around like a cat toying with a mouse before killing it. Even Zuko is fucking
scared, before remembering that this is about Katara and resuming his purpose of being on this journey. But despite Yue’s spirit giving Katara the power to bloodbend fuckers left and right, Katara’s mind remains clear enough to see that the man she was tossing around wasn’t Yon Rha, and so she stops. This is Katara, and vengeful as she may feel, she is not a person that kills randos. Even at the peak of bloodlust, Katara has the self-control and morality to not kill just any person left and right. When Katara is feeling murderous, she stays locked onto the specific and truly guilty target. This is what makes her so much different than Jet, despite Aang retardedly thinking otherwise.
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>>1993205So then you have Katara and Zuko ambush Yon Rha, where Katara has yet another O-ren Ishii moment, where she reminds her parent’s killer of his
victim through the familiarity of her face. Katara looks Yon Rha in the eye, as she tells him the entire picture of what that man has actually done. Katara tells him that Yon Rha came looking for the last waterbender of the Southern Tribe, and killed a woman named Kya on the assumption that she was the bender. Katara reveals that he got the wrong person, and that Kya lied to him to protect the real waterbender that was her daughter, standing right before him and with the power to stop rain. Standing right before him, and with the power to convert rainwater into icicle blades that can kill. Yet, Katara also learns something about Yon Rha’s life. That he was a sad, miserable, pathetic and weak little man who posed no threat to anyone or anything anymore. Yon Rha had no happiness left in him or his life. Nothing to be happy for, grateful to, or having anything to love. Not even his own mother. Then, there’s the last realization that even if Katara does take the retired loser’s life, there would be nothing to gain for her. Katara’s mother, Kya, would still be dead and drifting peacefully in the afterlife, or reincarnated somehow. If Katara has to take a life, it has to be absolutely necessary and worth it. Instead of an empty victory like how Yon Rha would have been. Yon Rha was beneath her, and so Katara leaves him on the ground like the little worm he was. However, when at Ember Island, Aang confronts Katara and says that he’s proud of her for not killing Yon Rha. Katara is still unsure of her decision, wondering if she spared him because she was too weak to take his life, or if she spared him because she was strong enough to walk away. Once again, Katara is trying to understand who she even is. Is she ready to trust outsiders again? Is she able to be forgiving? After that journey with Zuko, was Katara even right or wrong to give him hell at first? Is Katara really capable of taking a life? Should Yon Rha have died by order of his crimes? Katara has always been the one pushing her own struggles aside to focus on the team’s journey and what other people need, yet it’s finally Katara that gets to have her moment of genuine self-doubt. She tells Aang that she does not forgive Yon Rha for killing her mother. There is no need to, the man didn’t feel guilty and was only scared that a high-tier waterbender had him down. However, Katara does finally accept and forgive Zuko for the time, energy, patience, and listening he has done for Katara during the trip. Though Katara quickly came to understand that killing Yon Rha wasn’t what she needed, she is appreciative to Zuko for letting her figure that out for herself, and for letting her have closure about Kya’s death in the first place. Katara is able to see just how much Zuko has changed, and is finally able to forgive him, trust him, and give him the benefit of the doubt. Katara had her reasons to not accept Zuko at first, but the challenge between them has created a sense of understanding and closeness in the end. As for whether or not Yon Rha should have died, it doesn’t matter anymore because Katara knows that not much would have changed.
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>>1993207By the way, I feel like Katara has canonically killed people and WOULD kill Ozai if she absolutely had to. Remember the Black Sun? Yeah, Katara sliced open Fire nation airships, which must’ve left dozens of men falling to their deaths. They were firing at Katara and trying to take her down with Appa. She had to kill the soldiers, it was either her and Appa, or them. Ozai is the actual face of everything wrong with the Fire Nation, is an irredeemable sociopath, and wouldn’t think twice before striking down and killing anyone Katara loves. If it was up to Katara, I feel like she would have killed him because Ozai’s drive in the destruction of the world is that fucking infinite. I feel like the reason she DIDN’T kill Azula though is because at that point, Azula was obviously and tragically mentally ill. Katara could see that Azula was different from Ozai, despite how dangerous she was. Azula was broken, just like Zuko when first met him. I believe Katara was quick to piece together that Ozai was more than likely abusing the fuck out of Azula too, just in different ways. Plus, even though Azula is a borderline sociopath, Katara knows just how much Zuko still loves family members like Iroh. So even though Azula tried to kill Zuko multiple times, Katara spared her at the final Agni Kai because she knows how much Azula still means to Zuko.
One thing I like about Katara is her difference between her reaction to Aang’s outburst in The Desert, versus her reaction to Aang’s outburst when the team is on Ember Island. In the desert when Aang was being a generally unhelpful little twat and accused Katara of not caring and not helping enough, Katara lets herself get yelled at and merely responds that she was doing the best she could. At Ember Island when Aang is having a meltdown about what he needs to do about Firelord Ozai’s life, he snaps at everyone that nobody is helping him enough, even though every-single-fucking-body has been trying to help him with EVERYTHING. Katara is fed up with Aang’s childish behavior at this point, and just like in the Southern Raiders episode, she doesn’t shy away from disagreeing with Aang anymore. Katara calls him out for acting like a testerical doofus, and instead of reverting to her “motherly” instinct of lecturing Aang, she quickly learns from Zuko that sometimes it’s best to let people figure themselves out. Zuko sees that Aang’s internal struggles are beyond the help everybody has been giving him, and suggests to Katara that she saves her energy. Katara accepts this, and learns to carry on with their plan for Sozin’s Comet WITHOUT having to look after Aang.
Katara continues to do what she and anyone else always does: keep moving. Katara lets go of her mother’s death because from everything she has experienced and went through, Katara is ready to help end the war if that means preventing any more heinous losses and suffering. If it means less people having to suffer like herself and Sokka. If it means less people having to suffer like Aang. If it means having less people to suffer like those formerly enslaved earthbenders. If it means less people having to suffer like Jet. If it means less people having to suffer like Zuko. Less people suffering like Iroh. Less people suffering like Suki. Less people suffering like the imprisoned waterbenders. Less people suffering like Hama. Less people suffering like Fire nation civilians who don’t like the war themselves. Less people suffering like even Azula. As this is who Katara is, she refuses to turn her back on people who need her, even if that includes the entire fucking world. Katara isn’t a perfect character, and I feel like she was rather neglected by Bryke compared to characters like Zuko and had some wasted potential for her development. The worst part of Katara’s writing is that she’s paired with Aang, and it doesn’t help that their endgame romance makes no fucking sense after they were further apart with understanding than ever. But to say that Katara is BLAND or the worst female character in the entire show is objectively wrong. I am dead serious. If a person says that Katara is the worst female character in the entire show, or that she’s bland, that person has absolutely no fucking clue of what they’re talking about. Yes, that includes you, anon. I don’t know if it stems from not really watching the show, general failure to properly analyze what’s in front of them, another day of some fujofag deliberately painting untrue conceptions about female characters to justify their yaoi, or just the run-of-the-mill internally misogynistic media head who hates any female character that doesn’t conform to whatever arbitrary standard of how girls and women should be written. But regardless of the reason, such a statement that Katara is the worst character or is bland is unwaveringly incorrect. Katara is not the worst, but the type of conclusion that completely ignores everything about Katara absolutely is the worst type of take to make about any character at all. Katara is not bland, but this recurring perception that female characters must act like annoying, tomboy assholes to be interesting is definitely an unintelligent and bland take.
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>>1993188>>1993210I thought I was an Azula stan, but I would never write this much about her. In fact, I don't think would never write this much about any character that I like, lol.
I'm not reading any of it, but I respect the effort. Love your passion, katarasperg-chan.
No. 1993543
>>1993210>I don’t know if it stems from not really watching the show, general failure to properly analyze what’s in front of them, another day of some fujofag deliberately painting untrue conceptions about female characters to justify their yaoi, or just the run-of-the-mill internally misogynistic media head who hates any female character that doesn’t conform to whatever arbitrary standard of how girls and women should be written. >But regardless of the reason, such a statement that Katara is the worst character or is bland is unwaveringly incorrect. Katara is not the worst, but the type of conclusion that completely ignores everything about Katara absolutely is the worst type of take to make about any character at all. >Katara is not bland, but this recurring perception that female characters must act like annoying, tomboy assholes to be interesting is definitely an unintelligent and bland take.It’s all of the above, leader of the Katara cult. People will find a way to hate on a female character even if they have to make up shit or reveal how little they can dissect media without clear bias.
>fujofag deliberately painting untrue conceptions about female characters to justify their yaoiThis part in particular is sad because you still see it everywhere. The only thing that can be made light of is the fact that the fujoshitters who do this are so obviously jealous of the female character who gets in the way, especially when those fujos are well in their 30’s by now still seething over the character and have to mischaracterize the female character as
abusive while ignoring the same if not worse in canon behaviours of the male characters. It's even more pathetic when one of the yaoi characters are so clearly infantilized, whiny self-inserts.
No. 1993576
I don't know how my post summoned a katarafag. I'm sorry.
>>1990907>It’s common among all sorts of fans and media and in real life too. It’s not a fujo-specific thing at all.I'm not gonna lie, I have cut people off for doing this. It's one thing to hate a love rival but if I meet someone who's seething fuck that's here and there bitching about every female character imaginable with zero self awareness I stop paying attention.
>I don’t think it’s a writing issue like you said.I guess, maybe. I was just addressing the general comeback to this issue being that female characters often are written by scrotes that don't know what they're doing or people who don't know how to write women, which is something I can concede. This argument however comes across as really disingenuous when it's a well built character that can stand on her own being paraded as queen bitch. But this isn't as common as people like to claim, but I think when it does happen it's especially egregious. I personally take even less seriously when the fujo can't write female characters either, and has every excuse pulled out the ass for literally anything. I'd respect this kind of person a thousand times more if the reasoning simply was "I like male characters better" instead of 4D chess and pretending they care about male homophobia and how shipping het ships is literally fag dragging
>>1991600Yeah, I think post 2010s pretty much the only people that truly hated female characters for genuine misogynist reasons were gendies. There wasn't a single one of them who did this that couldn't not write women like children, by the way. But it's also socially acceptable to be misogynistic if they hide it under a thin veneer of her being a TIF or a barely characterized lesbian
No. 1994044
>>1994041>King of the hillToo ugly for me
>Moral OrelI'd consider it in my top 3, it can count as a favorite alongside the other two just mentioned.
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>>1994048Anon have you watched over the garden wall? It's fucking gorgeous and the character designs remind me more of vintage greeting cards over steven universe designs
This has been mentioned before by people but the reason south park is one of the only adult cartoons with a large female fanbase is because the kids look cute and a lot of the episodes feel like a CBDCT show.
No. 1994061
>>1994055Wrong
>>1994052Based and very pretty indeed
No. 1994127
>>1994095Yes I'm talking about western stuff. Handmaiden authors are so stupid because no male is reading their books. They are only virtue signalling to other handmaidens. Writing lesbian side characters would do the same thing AND showcase some female friendships.
>>1994105I completely forgot about ccs kek. Well in Clamp's case they are a group of pedo pandering weirdos. I was thinking more about Sailor Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew when I made that post.
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>>1994259>why do you enjoy media of anyone "suffering"? because sexooooo
No. 1994348
>>1994259I recommend not replying to that anon, everything she posts is always one of the following
>"look how gigastacy I am for cooming to moids getting raped">completely missing the points of other nonas who just don't share her fetish>samefagging to support her pointsI personally think this thread should have ended quite a while ago when some wise nonas explained fujoism in very neutral and informative ways, such as
>>>/ot/1972772. Dragging it longer attracted these sorts of people who just wanna infight and cry
victim about being oppressed over their 2d porn interests kek
No. 1994362
>>1994348Why do you think she's samefagging? But i do agree with the last part, i think everything has been said already, i thought this thread was about to die already?
>>1994356It honestly makes that anon seem paranoid, sorry, anon…
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>>1994259I like one hot guy abusing another hot guy.
No. 1994457
>>1994441Sadly I'm no artist, I'm just saddened that the most talented of fanartist usually have a kick for men fucking each other's asses for some reason, they're never fully based and it's a tragedy
>>1994445Not if it's done by a based woman
No. 1994462
>>1994437I feel like fujos and femdom fans are two similarish but very separate groups that don't have nearly as much overlap as one would presume on first glance.
I've seen more overlap between fujos and yumes than fujos and femdom fans.
No. 1994470
>>1994467>I've mostly just accepted that femgaze femdom is super nicheWell, except for that one artist who draws the furry femdom stuff with the scruffy guy that gets posted here a lot.
Being a fujo though it does nothing for me however.
No. 1994659
>>1994515seems we got a genuine tumblr-level "if you enjoy media where anything bad happens you're evil" puritan.
gotta wonder what they deem acceptable. care bears?
No. 1994755
>>1994259look at how hard this post
triggered them LMAO
No. 1994769
>>1994755>simply answering a question is being triggered why are you so
triggered by fictional men getting hurt?
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Imagine all the better ways you could have used the time you've wasted arguing about yaoi on Lolcor. You have a finite amount of time before you die and this is how you chose to use it, arguing in circles about something totally meaningless and insignificant in the greater scheme of things.
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People go trans because of mental problems, self hate, and autism.
Anything else is just "what flavor of tranny" and subject to trends.
Anime is popular so trannies flock to it and have it decribe their identity.
All nerd communities "make" trannies because all nerd communities are labels autistic can latch onto.
The actual content doesn't matter much at all.
No. 1998608
>>1998604anon the post says it's what they
want to become, not that they actually become it
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>>1998663There is a nerd-to-tranny pipeline, but it's more common in TIMs. E.g. programmer trannies.
Also, fujos are not real nerds. They're just geeks.
No. 1998675
>>1998663Because other types of nerds don't troon out enmass like TIFs do. They engage in some other type of obsession, some good or neutral (like knitting crocheting collecting plushies etc), some harmful (porn, self harm, stalking a crush etc). Some of them might indeed troon out but the ratio is much less. The emotionally fragile people without a stable identity that troon out often have a
trigger for their transing, which can be anything from peer pressure (all the girls I considered peers with similar profiles are now nb/trans so maybe I am one as well?), homophobia (convincing butch lesbian nerds that they are failed women and would be better off as men) or in case of fujotroons, a belief that she's not like the "pathetic yumes that imagines getting fucked by a 2d husbando as a woman", but a #actualmale (who also imagines getting fucked by a 2d husbando but as a MAN).
On a less snarky note:As the nona I previously quoted, BL neither fights nor promotes misogyny, but it is a response to misogyny. So many fujos are girls and women who are very aware of how misogyny affects women and just want to see m/m romance that cannot show any misogyny by design, and it's not a surprise that the TIFs running away from misogyny would be overrepresented in fujo circles.
No. 1998683
>>1998675>Because other types of nerds don't troon out enmass like TIFs do.Are male nerds turning into trannies not an issue?
Also all the crochet communities I've tried have had gendies and trannies. Imo, tabletop games are more likely to throw a rock, hit a tranny than anime in general.
No. 1999085
>>1998728I keep trying to but I've learned I need to have a thin, extremely exclusionary filter because trannies in these hobbies stick to you like flies to shit. They try their hardest to befriend you and literally go into a depressive spiral if you turn them down or break off the friendship. They're still the same awkward male faggots deep down, except it's somehow even more socially acceptable for them to harass you for attention, because you can come off as a bitchy evil
TERF for not wanting to give them attention. Fucking troons.
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I wish anti-fujo people were funny like they used to be. They don’t make girls like picrel anymore.
No. 1999199
>>1999111Fixing twitter does work well, even with the rec feed there's little to none and I just mute/block/not interested that too.
It's not like there'll be content you're going to like if you don't push it off, it'll just be more gendie shit, right?
No. 1999354
>>1999111Based. Did you do it manually? I'm still looking for a good blockchain type thing or mass blocker.
>>1999196I larp as a moid by default and use a voice changer if I have to for years now. It makes me understand why fujo spaces exist in the first place, when the other side of the coin is openly declaring yourself as a woman and attracting the fucking tards. It's a good bet on an exclusively woman space even if you have to share it with a few socially retarded autistic tifs, but even then I see tims constantly try to infest it or cancel it (zomg ukes are transgirls!!1!)
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>>1999354Manually yes! My fandom isn't too big so it's doable. Any time I see gross shit like titchop scar art or saying shit like boypussy I immediately block. I also mute any fujo twitters with anything other than no pronouns or she/her, and have a long list of muted words (picrel+some more cursed shit)
No. 2001644
>>2001486strange that its always a retelling of a fujo raping others or being raped and its always the same rambling text style
>>>/ot/1972297besides all of this how the fuck does your "friend" reading bl means thats why she got herself raped by a moid? are you seriously trying to say its because she read yaoi she couldnt see the red flags? have you forgotten how normalized rape by men is in our society and how fucking difficult is to get through that trauma? are trying to blame it on her because she read gay drawn porn? and as if het porn doesn't have more extreme fetishes than your usual bl , next time write a better cohesive fanfiction
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Possible actual moid who gets mad at fujos?
Either way, shut the fuck up scrote lmao
No. 2011962
>>2011725This kind of whiny online activist gay man wants to be oppressed by women so bad. They call fujos their oppressor because they need a category of women who systematically oppresses them. And why do they need that? Because they subconsciously hate women and need a way to shit on them without being considered misogynistic.
Criticizing fujoshi is common on tumblr but most of the times in more normie spaces they rag on Karens, terves or "cis" straight women instead.
No. 2011973
>>2011698Samefag as the reply above, but this is just funny. Gay men are the white people of LGB. You’re not oppressed by women of ANY orientation. You and your boyfriends’ income is higher than that of a
straight couple. You’re richer than the heterosexuals. No woman can rape you because of your hulking stature, and you regularly molest straight men for fun. You’re living life on easy mode. What a fucking joke faggots are.