[–] 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I thought that until I was downvoted a bit back for calling them “M$” in reply to someone’s post about how they don’t want to switch to 11. I can’t imagine where that’s coming from, but it was a good few accounts.

I was told it came across as “unserious” and childish. I think it’s neither: I’m adamant that M$ is garbage and I’m quite serious about the advice I had given in my post to prioritize getting off of 10 before the hackers manage to find something worth exploiting.

M$ managed to make hating on them uncool somehow. Boggles my mind.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on, but here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre): Bara is distinct from yaoi, a genre of Japanese media focusing on homoerotic relationships between male characters that historically has been created by and for women.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_love: The term yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/ ⓘ YAH-oi; Japanese: やおい [jaꜜo.i]) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of dōjinshi (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi("no climax, no point, no meaning"), where it was used in a self-deprecating manner to refer to amateur fan works that focused on sex to the exclusion of plot and character development, and that often parodied mainstream manga and anime by depicting male characters from popular series in sexual scenarios. "Boys' love" was later adopted by Japanese publications in the 1990s as an umbrella term for male–male romance media marketed to women.

    So it depends on where you look.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Afaik, Anne Rice was not trans. Many women identify with gay men in my experience. Her writing was very typical of women writing men.

    Her writing doesn’t represent the bara-type content shown in the second panel of the post, and to that point, your counterpoint is to the graphic in the post rather than to me.

    The picture in “gay mens yaoi” is characteristic of bara, for which there is already a term. I was just pointing that out. I wasn’t picking a fight.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    What’s the original link? The archive won’t load for me.

    Edit: I got hit with a captcha that wouldn’t load in DDG mobile. I opened it on a desktop and I have it now.

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