Strange thing I saw today

[missroserose]

Is it just me or is there something really, really disturbing about seeing a pubescent girl with a shirt that says "I (heart) Yaoi" on it?

On the other hand, it would be a great way to subtly rebel against one's parents, given that most of them wouldn't even know what yaoi is...

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Buh!

...I'd be tempted to demand an explanation, really. Maybe she thinks it's a sushi combo plate or a tropical fish.

Or maybe it was a Christmas present.

Hrm. This will make shopping for the family much easier this year. Moo hoo haa haar.

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

I think you deserve a beating for the implications of yaoi being a sushi combo plate...

and is it me, or are pubescent girls (and those who don't really become post-pubescent) the vast, vast majority of yaoi fans?

[rapier.livejournal.com]

No way. sigma7 deserves a medal for the sushi combo plate theory. I can imagine a pair of these girls tittering at each other as they ask the cute but tragic waiter (who's just come home from Tokyo University and is very bored and misses someone special, dontchaknow) for a "Number 7 yaoi combo with miso and extra ginger."

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. According to Wikipedia, yaoi comics are marketed mostly to schoolgirls and middle-aged housewives. Theoretically the less explicit ones are marketed to the younger group, but this is Japan, after all, and the girls have to learn what body parts look like somehow. :)

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

Japan is also gadget country. They can just ask their phone text message sex partner to use his camera phone to send them educational material. :)