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Hello. I don't like anime.
Posted on 2020.12.25 at 12:00
Hello, dear person who has clicked on my username. This is not a real LJ, it is just the identity I use to subscribe to communities I am embarrassed to have my friends list on my real LJ know I read. Originally it was mostly porn, but these days it's all about the trashy celebrity gossip.
I am making this post so people don't get confused about my username. It is a phrase derived from a subgenre of Japanese gay cartoon porn called "yaoi." If you've never heard of it, then I'm not going to bother explaining it, except to say that I'm actually not a fan -- I think it's creepy and gross.
"Uke X Seme" is supposed to be an ironic reversal of the conventionalized roles in yaoi. Basically, it means "bottom fucks top," and in Japanese-written yaoi, the roles are never reversed in this way. It is always "Seme X Uke," never the other way around. The younger, smaller partner (often appearing very childlike) is always on the receiving end, often nonconsensually.
Of course, the boy on the bottom always has an explosive orgasm in the end, showing that deep down he wanted to be fucked despite his protests. So it wasn't really rape. Sound familiar? Yeah, it's the same narrative framework we see in heterosexual bondage porn in the west.
The weird thing about yaoi is that, although it's gay porn, it mostly isn't created by gay men. Like western slash, it's written largely by and for women. And interestingly, rather than depicting sex between men as an opportunity for sex between equals, these female writers and artists transfer the abusive power structure of old-fashioned heterosexual convention over to a male-male relationship, as if sex in which nobody is getting bullied and dominated were impossible to imagine.
I find that really depressing.
So "Uke X Seme" is supposed to express not "I like cartoon porn where little boys get raped" but rather "People getting fucked in the ass should rise up and fuck the people fucking them."
HOWEVER, when googling the username one day in an attempt to find an old comment, I discovered that western yaoi fans on the internet sometimes use "Seme X Uke" and "Uke X Seme" interchangeably, contrary to the Japanese usage. To these folks, my intended irony would be completely lost, and I would come across as a fellow fan!
So I wrote this post to clarify things, even though most likely no one cares. I might just get a new username instead.
I am making this post so people don't get confused about my username. It is a phrase derived from a subgenre of Japanese gay cartoon porn called "yaoi." If you've never heard of it, then I'm not going to bother explaining it, except to say that I'm actually not a fan -- I think it's creepy and gross.
"Uke X Seme" is supposed to be an ironic reversal of the conventionalized roles in yaoi. Basically, it means "bottom fucks top," and in Japanese-written yaoi, the roles are never reversed in this way. It is always "Seme X Uke," never the other way around. The younger, smaller partner (often appearing very childlike) is always on the receiving end, often nonconsensually.
Of course, the boy on the bottom always has an explosive orgasm in the end, showing that deep down he wanted to be fucked despite his protests. So it wasn't really rape. Sound familiar? Yeah, it's the same narrative framework we see in heterosexual bondage porn in the west.
The weird thing about yaoi is that, although it's gay porn, it mostly isn't created by gay men. Like western slash, it's written largely by and for women. And interestingly, rather than depicting sex between men as an opportunity for sex between equals, these female writers and artists transfer the abusive power structure of old-fashioned heterosexual convention over to a male-male relationship, as if sex in which nobody is getting bullied and dominated were impossible to imagine.
I find that really depressing.
So "Uke X Seme" is supposed to express not "I like cartoon porn where little boys get raped" but rather "People getting fucked in the ass should rise up and fuck the people fucking them."
HOWEVER, when googling the username one day in an attempt to find an old comment, I discovered that western yaoi fans on the internet sometimes use "Seme X Uke" and "Uke X Seme" interchangeably, contrary to the Japanese usage. To these folks, my intended irony would be completely lost, and I would come across as a fellow fan!
So I wrote this post to clarify things, even though most likely no one cares. I might just get a new username instead.
