I dislike shoujo-ai, yaoi, yuri, shota, lolli, hentai, ecchi, gender-bender, and sports. most mecha and overly-cute manga too. and most vampire manga.

Ecchi and all the creepier stuff.

Yaoi (Because it's GAY)
Sports (Read a sports manga once, turned me off)
Some Mecha (It's more exciting in anime than on manga pages)

That pretty much covers it.

Everything has a price.

Gender Bender (well a little is fine)
Sports. Maybe. Well only because usually sports as the main focus don't usually attract me. I have read manga with sports in that I do like though.

Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

Well anything can be good if done right so I don't limit myself by staying away from a whole genre of works. Other than yaoi/shonen-ai, of course, since I am a guy and most of that stuff is intended for girls.

Genres I usually avoid:

Sports - Most of it doesn't really interest me.

Yuri/shoujo-ai - I find that a lot of GL is just a stupid, cliched shoujo story except "zOMG GIRL ON GRIL!11!!!".

Mecha - Like the poster before me said, it looks better when animated.

Harem - The male protagonist is usually very annoying. And reverse harem is just "OMG Bishies!"

Lolicon/shotacon - Only if it's romance between children sexual predators.

LOOK AT MY WITTY SIG!!11!!!!11

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Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

but disliking naked male bodies is a whole other story

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Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

I think you have something wrong here, it's not because people hate gay stuff, it's because alot of people find it immoralily wrong(well, for me anyway), i think you calling people's views pathetic is pathetic. 😐

Everything has a price.

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Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

I think you have something wrong here, it's not because people hate gay stuff, it's because alot of people find it immoralily wrong(well, for me anyway), i think you calling people's views pathetic is pathetic. 😐

Furthermore yaoi/yuri don't appeal to a heterosexual person...it has nothing to do with being tolerant or not...

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Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

I think you have something wrong here, it's not because people hate gay stuff, it's because alot of people find it immoralily wrong(well, for me anyway), i think you calling people's views pathetic is pathetic. 😐

Furthermore yaoi/yuri don't appeal to a heterosexual person...it has nothing to do with being tolerant or not...

i think it depends of your gender. women find men attractive and vice versa. unless you r homosexual, it is probably a no brainer that yaoi appeals to women and yuri to men. this is a generalization but i think it is for the most part correct

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[quote=akari_mizunashi]Wow, some of you people make me lose faith in humanity.
=( There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

I think you have something wrong here, it's not because people hate gay stuff, it's because alot of people find it immoralily wrong(well, for me anyway), i think you calling people's views pathetic is pathetic. 😐

Furthermore yaoi/yuri don't appeal to a heterosexual person...it has nothing to do with being tolerant or not...

i think it depends of your gender. women find men attractive and vice versa. unless you r homosexual, it is probably a no brainer that yaoi appeals to women and yuri to men. this is a generalization but i think it is for the most part correct [/quote]

For the most part, agreed, and that's the best logical simplification of the issue.

I think the issue here that was initially pointed out, however, is intolerance, which can be applied to some of the rationale given here. Basically, the idea is that it's okay not to like something as long as the same view isn't imposed on another. Ironically, this viewpoint is often imposed upon others, which is an interesting hypocritical point.

Regardless, this thread will really get off topic, and probably very heated if we get into a debate on the morality of homosexuality. It's the internet- people are uninhibited with controversial issues.

Back on topic:
...I'm honestly not much of an action person. I tend to avoid it unless it's coupled with philosophical musing or I just want something a bit less intellectual- not to say that it can't be, it's just that action is, about 90% of the time, purely for the sake of action.

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Well.. if there is one genre that i definitely avoid - it's Yaoi.. it doesn't appeal to me and i dislike seeing male-on-male.. ((
then.. what akari_mizunashi said here about being pathetic and stuff.. made me omg face palm.. just made me wonder if the author even understands what he writes... to dislike smth because you hate what it is/implies/includes or is most closely related IS basic.. it's just arrrghh.. *must contain anger and not insult anyone"... 😐

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There's nothing wrong with disliking yaoi or yuri - that's a matter of taste - but disliking it because you "hate gay stuff" or worse, because it immorally "glorifies homosexuality"? That's a little pathetic.

I feel as if I should elaborate: something that I dislike is when a manga tries to present something that is wrong as if it is not wrong, or even as if it is good. And, yaoi/yuri/shounen ai/shoujo ai do just that. So, I don't want to read them. That's all. What's wrong with not wanting to read stuff that glorifies something wrong?

Edit: After reading the original post again, I'm starting to feel a twinge guilty, that I'm carrying on a discussion that doesn't really belong here in this thread. So, I'd be happy to continue the chat on this subject, but let's do it privately.

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I feel as if I should elaborate: something that I dislike is when a manga tries to present something that is wrong as if it is not wrong, or even as if it is good. And, yaoi/yuri/shounen ai/shoujo ai do just that. So, I don't want to read them. That's all. What's wrong with not wanting to read stuff that glorifies something wrong?

You have no right to judge whether homosexuality is wrong because it belongs to the realm of other people's private lives. In fiction, yaoi/yuri/shounen-ai/shoujo-ai are just subject matters like anything else. Who says you have to read something that doesn't interest you? And you have no right to judge whether what other people like to read is wrong.

Not liking something and not finding it interesting and saying it's wrong are not the same thing. Saying it's wrong is like saying "other people shouldn't read it/participate".

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Furthermore yaoi/yuri don't appeal to a heterosexual person...it has nothing to do with being tolerant or not...

Yaoi/BL isn't intended for male readers. I've found a lot of gays actually take offense to yaoi because it stereotypes gays as promiscuous/wealthy/etc.

The homosexual male comics aimed at them are called either 'bara' (Think Uho! Ii Otoko/Kusomiso aka bears aka hairy men) and gay-comi.

Yuri, on the other hand, a lot of it is written by women. I think of them as two different 'subsets' of yuri. One intended for women, the other for men.

As for shoujo-ai and shounen-ai, I have no idea who came up with the brilliant idea to use those terms to mean what they do.

They do NOT mean 'soft love between the sexes' or anything like that. They're the Japanese terms for (shoujo-ai) pedophiles interested in girls and (shounen-ai) pedophiles interested in boys. 🙄

If you look up 'shounen ai' on most Japanese bookstores, you get books about Michael Jackson 🤣 🤣

I don't avoid any genre because nothing bothers me. I'm not really interested in sports, but I always like to try and broaden my horizons. 😃