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An author was raided in sydney this year for a 'romance novel' she wrote
it turned out to be pretty damn pedophillic, here's a crap source
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/sydney-author-lauren-tesolinmastrosa-arrested-over-pedophilia-book/news-story/5babb82438d7adc5ca699c877b07641a
You will have to excuse me if i am sceptical of the intentions of the author of this NYT article
Lol
theyre stories written by straight women, for straight women, nice try tho! I actually dont feel great about hets writing steamy erotic novels about le gays.
i will never not be extremely sus on ivory tower journalists, theyre either feds, or being manipulated by the feds to publish articles justifying the feds.
Wang was previoisly awarded for her coverage of COVID in china, and if you google her name and corona virus you find plenty of 'the peasants are revolting against the emporer' kind of articles, 'the chinese are covering it up' 'we looked at gps data to get the real story'
these articles very rarely cite any regular people who live in China, its generally experts from the usa all the way down.
anyway, my point is, remain critical, approach things with caution, honestly i feel pretty sad someone would post this here without any sort of analysis. inadvertanly promoting the face value 'theyre killing queers'
need i remind you how the NYT reports on Palestine?
sorry this is cranky i havent had coffee
Same! Bad vibes! No different from straight men being like
about lesbians.
If I recall correctly, one of the big reasons yaoi became so popular with women in Japan was because they felt gay relationships, or at least the sorts of fictionalised gay relationships featured in manga etc, were free of the rigid gender roles in more traditional romantic stories and Japanese society in general