Black Market Codpieces and Coats for Snowmen

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The insistence on separation, the insistence that there be absolutely no male characters near the couple.

I mean, I understand the logic. Kind of like how I understand why people stay in Pentecostalism even if they know that it's evil, if not profoundly wrong, but I don't get it. I understand why people are into Twilight, but I don't get it. I understand why people read the Gor series and love it, but I don't get it.

I don't get this insistence on separation thing. I understand it, but I don't get it.

I mean, I understand wholly, because F/F relationships are taken the least seriously in the Real World, and such things are a male fantasy, and I kind of get that in Japan, it's supposedly a phase and then a girl gets older and marries a nice, rich man. I understand why yuri fans tend to be distrusting at best when it comes to male characters. I also understand when it's the inverse for yaoi fans--in both cases, the homosexuality is something that needs "cured" by a Magical Penis/Magical Vagina and then *poof!* Gay be gone. I understand why people wouldn't like this. Fuck, I totally get why people hate it. I hate that trope and want it to die in a fire. I get that reason. I totally understand that there are other reasons, too--the guy character could be a wholesale store full of Fail, or they stuck him in there to prove that the two girls aren't fucking, or the guy is a douchebag, or the guy is actively trying to break the couple up--but other than that, I don't get the dislike of guys near the yuri if they're not actively interfering.

What, is it like if the girls are near the Forbidden Fruit (Forbidden banana, perhaps?), then the Yuri is destroyed for all time and eternity? Will that girl have to go to fucking guys just because a guy is in the vicinity and happens to show mild to moderate interest, but isn't actively being a homewrecking fuck? No, not really. unless said main character was bisexual, and of course, those don't exist. [/rant]

Bottom line, I ask this again, Yuri Fandom, What the fuck? I mean, I understand wholly, but, sorry. Lost me there. I'm all for guys as supporting characters and whatnot. Even the totally dicky ones. On The Other Hand, if said guy is the de-gaying agent and there's no other reason for him to be there? Get him the fuck outta the story. Have him run over by a bus or something, just get him the fuck out.

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