wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 30 August 2010 02:51:56PM *  3 points [-]

and... seriously? There are girls that go around reading and writing male homo-erotic stories? Here I was thinking only guys did that (or the analogous) sort of thing to a significant degree. How narrow minded of me.

Comment author: Alicorn 30 August 2010 02:54:26PM *  8 points [-]

Text-based erotic stories in general are mostly the province of girls. Yaoi stories are a subset of that, still largely by and for women. (Of course there's also manga and whatnot; I have less explanation for that.)

Comment author: wedrifid 30 August 2010 03:01:55PM 1 point [-]

The link Khafra gave me the impression that Yaoi was often graphical too (compared to anime or manga). Does the same trend apply to those works? (Or, perhaps, are the wikipedia authors just biassed towards graphical media?)

Comment author: Alicorn 30 August 2010 03:04:11PM 3 points [-]

The word "yaoi" is extracted from Japanese; I don't find it surprising that it would retain a connection to the Japanese story form.

Comment author: CronoDAS 30 August 2010 07:49:27PM *  5 points [-]