This sort of mentality is often accompanied by essentializing statements such as: Male sexual fetishes are EXCITING AND REVOLUTIONARY.įemale sexual fetishes are DESTROYING FEMINISM AND/OR LGBT RIGHTS FOREVER.
To summarize and simplify these comments: What this excitement has occasionally been accompanied by, however, are snide comments about BL manga. This news has been met with congratulations from all corners of English-language manga fandom, which is fantastic, because congratulations are in order. This essay is potentially triggering and extremely NSFW.Īt the Toronto Comic Arts Festival last weekend, Picturebox announced their plan to publish a bara manga anthology titled Massive. I’m really serious about the content warning. Content warning for discussion of rape fantasies, illustrations of penises, and strong irony regarding sensitive topics.
