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[salinea]

Question : am I the only one to think that talking of "yaoi" as a subgenre of "slash" is horribly ethnocentrist in that it considers the Western brand of homoerotic fandom as the more global, universal genre and considers the Japanese brand as a subset of it regardless of historical developments of either genre ?

PS : I'm not saying that penknife is ethnocentrist since she's only asking the question.

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[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

I'd say that'd be a classic example of that particular problem, yes.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad I'm not delusionnal ^^

Love your icon by the way, Orange Road used to be one of my favourite anime when I was a kid ^^

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

:D Oh, is that what it is? It was a meme present - I've been considering digging up the source, but haven't done it. *glad to know!*

And yeah. I mean, in some ways you could say that yaoi is a subgroup within the Japanese tradition of m/m homerotica produced primarily by women that does, in some ways, correspond to similar subgroups within the Western/English language tradition of m/m homeortica produced primarily by women, but, well, that's not what that sentence says.