1.
Sources
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy's_Love
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi_fandom
http://journal.transformativeworks.com/index.php/twc/article/view/427/391
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/463/388
2.
Main Idea
Being fujoshi
is not wrong.
3.
Supporting Details
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Fujoshi
are normal people.
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Fujoshi
read or yaoi for enjoyment only.
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As one of fujoshi I find the phenomenon is
popular.
4.
First Draft of Opinion
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Don’t Worry Fujoshi
Won’t Bite You
These days,
being fujoshi—the Japanese term used
to describe women who are interested in reading or watching any fictional media
focusing on relationships between boys (yaoi)—is
not wrong. Although common people will consider fujoshi as odd human beings, or even getting disgusted by their
interest but I am against that perception. My very first reason is that most of
fujoshi are still normal people,
after all. Recent online surveys of English-speaking fujoshi indicate that 60% of them are straight. Although the rest
40% are not, but there is no impossibility for women who are not fujoshi will have the same sexual
orientation. In fact, the surveys have
not included fujoshi in Japan and
other non-English-speaking countries, which have greater number of women with
heterosexual orientation. It is related to an indication mentioned in Wikipedia
that Western fujoshi may be more
diverse in their sexual orientation than Japanese ones and that Western ones
are more likely to link yaoi to
supporting gay rights. However, in fact yaoi
has nothing to do with gay people because yaoi
is originally aimed at female audiences. The second reason is that fujoshi read or watch yaoi
for enjoyment only. In various special issues of literary magazines, yaoi writers and artists such as Kaneda
and Miura—who are also fujoshi—, simply
state that they like yaoi because it
is fun. This simple explanation is often doubted by researchers, saying that women
who like yaoi must be caused by
problems of sexuality. However, in reality, the reason why fujoshi read or watch yaoi
indeed is just because they find it enjoyable. It is proved in a study done by
Akiko Hori which said that most fujoshi
are keenly aware that their fantasies about yaoi
are exactly that—fantasies, and nothing more. Moreover, Shigematsu also states
that enjoyment of fantasies “doesn’t suggest the fantasizer wants to act out
these fantasies”. Lastly, the basic reason why I am opposing the negative
conception of fujoshi is that I am
also one of them. I myself notice that the phenomenon is quite popular out
there, so it is not like being fujoshi
is such an uncommon thing.
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