New Poll - Sexual Orientation and Preferred Romance Series
Girl, straight. I read boy/girl romances for the most part, but if I want to indulge myself, once in a while I'll read something yuri. Never yaoi though. Never.
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10 years ago
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Ralf König does more then "gay comic" and he is know on a national level.
Whatever. I didn't look into it a lot, because it's not relevant.
Or how about Alison Bechdel?
Is she Japanese? Does she live in Japan? Does she write/draw in Japan? Does she publish (originally!) in Japan?
No.
Well then, she doesn't do bara (or BL, yaoi or yuri) and is thus not relevant.
None would call Strangers in Paradise a yuri comic for one
Of course not! It's American!
Sandman had a dozen of non heterosexual characters and none cared....
Again, it's American. (as well as not being centred on the non-heterosexuality or non-heterosexual relationship(s), which is also a necessary element of being yuri/BL/Yaoi. You don't call a series a comedy, just because it contains a joke or two, nor do we class Terminator to be in the genre of romance, just because there is a romantic relationship in it)
Wiki reads as gay men comics for gay men were invented in japan
It says that Japanese produced gay men comics (i.e. bara) were invented in Japan?
How could that not be true?
You can forget the editing of the LGBT anime/manga wiki article´s son as i got a memo from an "editor" once who tracked me down by IP when i added a few anime series with strong yuri elements (that the yuri community hates) on that respective list and gave out that genre. I even linked my sources!
I would venture to suggest that you either made some mistake, in how you added them or how you cited the sources (you can't just mention that there are sources, they need to be included, in a proper manner).
Especially as you say he/she "tracked you down by IP".
No one tracked you down by IP.
Your IP is clearly shown, for every edit you make, if you're an unregistered user. (If you're registered, it's the username instead)
If you're too ignorant of Wikipedia to know even that, I can imagine that your edit was quite clumsy and no doubt was very annoying to other editors. (editors being anyone who edits Wikipedia. Especially those who do so frequently/regularly)
Also, please note that series added to that list, tend to get removed immediately, if they're not clearly (and properly) sourced ...even when it would seem ridiculous to require one (YuruYuri has Yuri in its title! Still got removed, until it was re-added with a clear source). I'm not saying that's necessarily how it should be done, but that is how the editors on the article tend to react.
Either that, or the editor you mention, was a bad editor who was going against Wikipedia policy ...which happens.
If you want, you could tell me when it was, and which anime you're talking about, and I could check the edit history, to check what happened and why, and suggest how to fix it ...and how to respond, should you get opposition (I've gone through a couple of disputes on Wikipedia) ...but that'd probably be best to leave to PMs.
I've added a few titles to that same list (as well as re-adding series that were, obviously wrongly, removed)
Well done with keeping that information flow going dear Big Bother wiki and some articles are truly more equal then other.
The quality of the articles depends on the editors who bother to check it and edit it, and the amount of them and how closely they follow Wikipedia policy (the policies are good ...but not always fully followed).
For big topics, the articles are perfectly reliable.
For small stuff... Not always.
In some cases you can have an article that's only been edited by one, crappy, editor.
"Classification of swords", for example, is a bit of a mess, but it was really terrible before I got to it (still way better than most encyclopaedias, mind you).
...but it's still a good, and mostly reliable, encyclopaedia.
The gay games character list is a mess too
I'm not familiar with that list, but I can certainly imagine that there'd be problems there.
Characters that have been clearly and explicitly been labelled as gay, are one thing, but... if you go beyond that, and accept subjective judgement, there are tons of problems.
There are a lot of fanwankers out there...
as the respective wikia´s (FF for one) got it right.
- They concentrate on the specific game.
- They are less strict, in their rules on what you add and how you do so.
I am not going to call SHIMURA Takako´s writing bad as i am not an idiot but i find it a bit stilted.
Well if that's the worst you say about her, I'll take it that you don't think she's too bad in her portrayals (though I found it kinda ridiculous, how many [kinda] open lesbians/bisexuals there were, everywhere, in Aoi Hana. Gotta read Hourou Musuko, one of these days).
I've read the first few chapters of Sasameki Koto, but... it's gone into my massive "On Hold" list, as so many a series do, regardless of how good they are. (Berserk is on hold. Though, to be fair, it's not the easiest series to read, given how dark and depressing it is)
What japan should repeat is content is like the GLAD winning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batwoman (Semi protected!).
Now that's an example of an article you can trust! Not that I'm familiar with it, but...
It's very active. It's even semiprotected, due to passionate disagreements and plenty of activity. That means closer enforcement of policy and mitigation of biases of a few individuals, due to opposing individuals (with opposing biases).
No Uke/Seme crap! To be fair, a lot of Yuri does have the Uke/Seme dichotomy. Some do, sure, but plenty of them have relationships that are more...
Unclear. Fluid... Realistic, essentially.

10 years ago
Posts: 98
My only problem with this poll (and the reason I did not vote) was that I don't hate romance, but I don't prefer same-sex to boy-girl or vice versa. In fact, part of the reason why so many people put in that they don't like romance might be people with no preference one way or the other (that's just a guess).
For the record, I'm ambi with no preference. Romance or not, whatever the orientation of the characters, it just needs to be done well. There are varieties of all each of the genres which I dislike (e.g. a sexuality or gender role being forced on one of the characters or a lack of decent plot), and there are aspects of each that I find relatable or enjoyable. It honestly largely depends on what you're looking for.
Sometimes I get bothered by the large absence of sexuality or gender as a legitimate concern in heterosexual romances, sometimes I get bothered by the very heavy focus on it in homosexual romances, sometimes I get bothered by the near absence of ambisexuals/bisexuals outside of same-sex depictions of romance (part of being ambi/bi is potentially liking/falling for someone of any sex), sometimes I get bothered by the lack of depicted distinction between sexuality and gender. I always get bothered when a role is forced on to a character: when one member of a homosexual couple is a "surrogate" of the opposite sex or when a tomboy secretly wants to be "cute" (somehow the opposite never comes up), etc. (Don't even get me started on how sexual assault in various forms is addressed.) Those are some of the most bothersome tendencies for me personally.