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even I, female, couldn't stand yaoi or shonen ai genre... My friend love it so much and she recommend me to watch/read okane ga nai, loveless and kuroshitsuji, I know the series is great, it just feels... Wrong to me... Romance between cool handsome guy and weak boy (sorry, no offense for the fans), ...
Yeah, well I'm not into BL either, but if you watch something like that, those are major leagues as I know. As someone said here, almost every yaoi is like Shinjo Mayu's works. And that's the greatest problem, the way BL is depicted is completely wrong: not every couple in this world is a super-strong seme and the other one a delicate-wimp uke; there's no development at all; and, in most of the cases, there's coercion. I haven't read them, but from comments here and around the web, that's what I think.
Shounen-ai is supposed to be mild, but if you don't like it, there's no turning back. Out of curiosity, once I read
The Visitor, and it wasn't that bad. It was mostly because there was a Shinigami (with no gender) and the story had sense, even I felt bad for the guys in it, their stories T.T. I won't spoil, so if you wanna get further into BL, maybe you wanna pick that one.