Heterosexual female fans of Yuri, why do you like it? In my case I fell in love with Yuri and lesbian fantasy, historical, horror and sci fi stories because they have complex and badass female cast of different ages (including middle-aged and old women), beautiful depictions of both romantic and not romantic relationships between women, feminist themes, rightful “Take that!” to misogynistic and sexist archetypes and role reversal; something that, sadly, it is often difficult to find in romantic heterosexual series: I hate how many bishounen guys are put in those series in different roles even when the society should be gender equal and the romanticization of abusive men 😡 I want BAMF women and cool adult or middle-aged or old female mentors for the protagonist or the latter being one herself, respected women in power, masculine female protagonists and feminine male love interests or just a female protagonist who ends up to play traditional masculine narrative roles and the male love interest the traditional feminine ones despite the appearance and to see jerks getting punished for their abuse: why is it hard to find it in romance that should be targeted to a female audience? Why do I find them more in stories where romance is a subplot or it isn’t present, in old shoujo classics, in serious josei works and, ironically, in shounen and seinen series (where there is still the problem of fanservice: I love the many badass women in “Kurohime”, starting with the protagonist, but the author could have avoided many ridiculous ecchi moments. God blesses the shounen and seinen female authors like Hiromu Arakawa and Ryoko Kui), beyond the Yuri genre and female queer plots?