FMA Almost-Wank
I don't know how wanky this is - it doesn't have anything in terms of insult throwing, but I thought the original rant itself was fairly wanky, and there's always the potential that someone will be horribly offended.

Someone posts in FM Alchemist that he doesn't understand people who write yaoi and shounen ai HagaRen fanworks.

Some people agree that the proliferation of m/m works in the fandom is off-putting. (And a discussion about the definition of shouta versus that of pedophilia ensues.)

Dissenting but polite voices point out that HagaRen does not lend itself to any pairings whatsoever, and so to say that shounen ai and yaoi are out of the question seems a bit off.



OP says, about his involvement with yaoi or lack therof,

Now that times are starting to change, I find people, mostly young females, latching onto the whole homosexual phenomenon like rebellious teens after a bottle of their father's booze. And I make this metaphor because, for example, in Europe drinking laws (and depending on where you are, NO drinking laws), are far more lax there than in the U.S. And yet still there are far-less alcohol-induced crimes there than in the U.S. I was raised by an Irish Roman Catholic household, the laws against me drinking where very lax within family circles, and yes although I've done my fair share stupid things under the influence, I've always taken responsibility afterwards, and I've never really seen alcohol as such a big deal as most kids around me did. By the same token, I myself am a transgendered bisexual male (FtoM). All of my decently-sized circle of friends I surround myself with are gay or lesbian, with the exception of one. All of us seem also to not grok the hype over same-sex pairings in anime fandoms, unless of course such pairing is already present, or hinted at such.