Probably many of the readers (not readers) coming to that letter, are not familiar with Hentai anime and its extensive dictionary of phenomena or "literary discourse" (insert laughter, it's sarcasm.) However, there is no need to go see Black Bible to understand what I want to raise here. Within
Hentai, there is a term called "Futanari", "newhalf" or "shemale" to not get semantics, we say that it is women (and at a rate much minor and almost painful default men) who can develop the reproductive opposite to their gender and sexual practices maintain without losing their original attributes.
There is also a variation within the genre "yaoi", where you can find a relationship doujinshis seme / uke, in which the "passive" will expand the area of the breasts and nipples during sex, to the point of having formed a pair of breasts. Within this same variant, the uke usually have a micro-penis or this Appendix simply forgets to draw. So
Therefore, this beautiful blue planet where we live, the human race is plagued sympathetic paraphilias or sexual aberrations. " Enthusiasts of some of these variants, defend (defend) the taste without much luck. Although, after all, are tastes that should be in private practice, intimate, and in the most extreme case, always consensual.
Well, as one can find all sorts of variations to the sexual fantasies "hentai" (whether they be heterosexual, yaoi or yuri) also is feasible to find "words" or "gender" for almost everything in life. There are creams for oily skin, dry or mixed science fiction and hyper-realistic portrait. And among all these possibilities within the world of fanfiction "yaoi" are also subgenres and "terms." One of these, and it ends up being representative of a cultural response is undoubtedly the mpregnant or "male pregnancy."
male pregnancy is as dear suspect heirs of Sherlock and Dr. House, a fictional character in the resources that a component of a couple "yaoi" (I refrain from calling them "gay" because it has a load yaoi culture different from being gay) gets pregnant after s to have sex, "anal."
now pregnant "man" (so I would not go with seahorses) is defined as: the process of human reproduction that begins with the implantation of the conceptus in women. Pregnancy begins at the time of nidacióny ends with delivery. Similarly, it is logical to understand that pregnancy is given by the union of a sperm and an egg to create an embryo that develops in a woman's uterus.
Pregnancy is a "biological fact" that recognizes both sides to take place: male and female, which, who carries the fetus and unborn child is female, because it is equipped biological ; logically to this process, while being this a stage of "pregnancy" in which the woman goes through a series of processes that weaken and transform your body, putting even at risk.
Thus, this biological fact, the power to gestate a human being inside the body, occurs under conditions specifically designed for a type of individuals whose biological characteristics make them "females" or own females.
should be noted before that "a woman" is a cultural category, among which often includes being a mother, but this is not an attribute "innate" when it is in any case , the power to gestate a baby to have the uterus, ovaries, a number of hormones specific physical arrangement to do so.
Power gestate a living in the body, due to a biological condition, however, influences the construction of a cultural imaginary. A human being has biological attributes to gestate a child is considered a female, and culturally it is also a woman.
I think it's important not to confuse, at this point, a male / male homosexual cultural attributes, physical and biological female. And not only speak of "male pregnancy" (Mpregnant).
trying to write stories "yaoi" fall into several dead ends related to the feminization of the characters and perhaps feel more comfortable in dealing with them. I think there is much that a woman can make a relationship of two men, as an observer but also as a look at this relationship with the magnifying glass that has given the society has grown.
Interestingly, from that point of view, analyzing many yaoi fanfics where "relationships" erotic and / or love between men end up being modeled the form of cultural relations in which man is dominant and women submissive. The paradigm or emblem of such practices would be the relationship "seme-uke" that goes beyond the private sphere of sex and becomes a reproduction of a relationship "classical" husband-wife, where the "seme" is dominant, the courting (many times in a violent courtship, some covered in Blue Princes impossible stereotypes), which maintains the home and children requiring biological ; logically theirs. The "uke" starts to play, in this relationship, attitude of submission, acceptance, gentleness, tenderness, need to be protected, etc. In the most radical, the "uke" is given attributes of a human female, so it is able to fulfill the role of a family "classic" where the biological children are not unity and stability of a couple, but a "family".
First, it is important, tone, not to confuse people who are attracted physically / emotionally to other men, with individuals they have to make personal decisions because they do not feel happy with their outward appearance, gender social etiquette that your environment requires them to carry, or their own "physical bodies." In other words, there are men attracted to other men, there are people who think before they attract, they think of themselves and how they are conceived: they agree with his biological body and physical but they choose to behave and dress as the cultural representation of a woman. And there are men who believe that biologically speaking, are not happy with the biological sex they have, and not wanting to be gay, like, totally, be and be recognized as individuals of the opposite sex.
Second, there are several levels of confusion about what it means to understand what a relationship, but in several fanfiction linearity are almost sacred.
A + B = Couple: Couple + Kids = Family: = final representation of a relationship.
In conjunction assume this implicitly, the relationship between two men would face obstacles in both A + A can not give the same result as A + B. But the irony is that, it has to be, not an innate order of human cloning, an even heterosexual couples need not comply with these requirements in order to feel complete or meet the expectations of society. But as an example, the formula does exist and is necessary in the imagination of many people and societies, so it does not play a frustrating gap, even in fiction. Similarly, surreptitiously, we realize that is also intruded into this equation, the plan's biological children, is operated under the idea that "only the blood of your blood is able to complete the perfect equation, being reduced or set aside the possibility of taking just opt for a life of couples without children .
The "uke" in the relationship yaoi, is passing through a most radical transformation in some cases, to fit in the classic formula is not only transformed into a human with male and female biological sex, but also culturally accepted characteristics ascribed as feminine, from the attitude to transvestism.
But in many fanfiction where they carry out these experiments, we wonder about the psychology of these characters before sex, could be considered transgender or bisexual. And yes, we must understand that people go through these processes, they do slightly, going through many conflicts in their lives, personal and social level in order to be understood and to understand that society says. And even assuming that the character is a "special breed" culture shock is just as strong and does not decrease arbitrarily.
Thus, many characters in the world of Yaoi incomprehensible go through a process of feminization, dismissing the range of "choice" of gender that exist in society. In many cases this feminization cute and the OOC.
In this case, I prefer to focus on characters from the three fandoms where I wrote more than anything: Shuichi Shindo, Fai D. Fluorite and Wolfram von Bielefeld, are characters that represent very different ways what it means to be a gay man as well, are people who are subjected to counter feminization states as characters that have an origin and a set characteristics that make them "be" them and not others.
To begin with, none has shown any interest in changing their biological sex. Are men, men who accept its existence at that level. In a second instance, none of the three characters has expressed a desire to live as a woman, in the sense of behaviors that are culturally recognized as female.
On with the fact that begins to decant and define the three characters as "individuals" at some point. Shuichi Shindo is accepted openly gay, the story of this character is built in a world "Social practices" relating to our real world, is accepted as gay, but even in this respect manifests no desire to be rooted in a role "traditional" husband-wife (which I call Riku "Mom" reflects the worldview of the child), but it is also true that he's in the "art world" where gender gaps are altered and obey while other interests. Shuichi is a protester and a rebel in many ways, the fact of living in mass media industry and accepted as a homosexual does not allow roles rooted in "classic" does not believe that A is only A and B only B. Adapta A to B without having to convert B to A or vice versa. His relationship with Eiri Yuki is still more of a relationship between two individuals with complex personalities that two men whose only limitation is to be male in a heterosexual society. The scenes of transvestism in initiation and Shuichi are also driven by a private and not a statement of transgender. The comic tone shows also relationship "violent" between two boys and learn to be friends, learn to be a partner. Incidentally, the doujinshi Murakami, in the case of Gravitation, study, without wanting or willing, complex psychological issues such as the change of roles in the relationship between Yuki and Shuichi. D
Fai Fluorite has the privilege / misfortune of having been born under the protective lap of the group CLAMP. It is clear that they are promoters of the classic stereotype of "seme-uke", but thanks to the need for marketing promiscuous, have avoided "rebel openly "the relationship that this character podríao not have to Kurogane. Fai is a dandy in full, if we say to put a label that is placed under Wilde. His tendency to crossdressing clips should be revised. The developers have been crossodressing Horitsuba only story worth has nothing to do with Tsubasa. And in this manga it enjoins its role as a magician fight in another language and its decision not to fight or not to act has nothing to do with internal conflict in gender, but family problems. When it has been shown to Furisode, was not to confirm him as a transvestite or transgender but has had an intimate connotation, personal, about his relationship with Kurogane. Now, for a large part of society, the mere fact that they "accept" a relationship between two men means that one must "assume" a role "female" for the equation to work. But this is just a way of thinking, not fact. We could also simply say that these are two men in a relationship, they are not required to play classical roles and default just because their relationship does not meet the permitted status. The only reason to transform the dandyism of Fai on female attributes, is in the discomfort of fanatical fans and writers to accept that two men are in a relationship. Some people prefer to place Fai in a heterosexual relationship, they use the same dandyism and gallantry in Fai to affirm it as "man" when it really should not justify any type of & ldquo ; attitude "to validate or not a relationship" homosexual. " So we could say that there is a difference between a relationship "gay" and a relationship "yaoi", while in "yaoi" is a tendency to "feminized" one member partner for this work. Thus, there are many pregnant fanfiction with a magician, crying, dependent, tedious ... which apparently is there to "complement" representation of a "dominant male", and ends up being more violent Kurogane , more raw, more dry than it really is.
Now, Shuichi Shindo is openly gay, and Fai before calling it as such because there is no confirmation on their part, may be called Dandy (a lifestyle of elegant and refined, openly reflected in dress and manner of speak, but above all see the world).
Finally, Wolfram von Bielefeld is a character created in a world where ideas about homosexuality "no" for both roles, stereotypes and imagery are canceled to some extent. Wolfram's novels (and who knows if the anime, because this was not precisely for its great delineation of characters) has not been raised in the minds of husband-wife roles children, including Shin Makoku monarchy is not hereditary, so the plan is aborted by the same blood, there is an obsession No biological reproduction or for pampering paradigms meet on Earth. Cheri is an example as well as Anissina, or the same Gwendal Gunter, whose mother told him clearly that "as I did not expect him to marry at least I could give you an adopted granddaughter," and this is nothing less than Gisela, whose status is entirely that of Gunter's daughter, so the idea of "adoption" is not undeserved as in the imagination of certain practices on Earth. Wolfram von Bielefeld is anchored in the imagination and, although many writers put the outcry, the representation of a knight or prince, in any case has shown interest in wearing women's clothes Nor has a personality tender, delicate and unprotected. He is a soldier and eighty-two years experience or not a disabled person with gender conflicts and with a strange idea of what self-respect and relationship, which enjoins to stoop to a couple who refuses by sex and by failing to comply with the biological imperative to give children. Wolfram has never been interested in dressing as a woman and wearing nightgown is not a statement of transgender is sleepwear at the time (Gwendal, Gunter, Conrart, sleep with clothes on), not considered to be "less" can not "give children" to Yuuri who, incidentally, has never shown the level of sexism and conservatism with which he is portrayed in fanfiction. It is important to note the radical change that has Yuuri in some fanfiction in which to force a relationship stereotype, the two characters go through a mutation to the depths of his being ending OOC converted simply to satisfy some cultural roles.
There is a complex but clear line when it comes to feminize a character. At which point, one wonders, a man biologically capable of gestating a baby, that psychologically you do for the "good" of their relationship and even as a personal realization that attitudes is considered culturally "feminine" but hyperbolic as sensitivity, the need to be protected, etc., is no longer a man but a woman. "At which point, these characters were men and men became a reality, rather than guys with breasts (because they acquire the ability even to breastfeed) in women with micro-penis?
For individuals who are born hermaphrodites, there are certain clinical practices that cause the sex is decided by measuring the clitoris will, if it does not exceed certain the baby will mm women, and if larger, will be a man. Certain writers (not all and no doubt also remember that one is entitled to write whatever you want) surgeons have become arbitrary in their characters, and inadvertently have been making the biological and cultural symbol of being male, a penis to a large clitoris and "useless" because the "ukes" (in case I'm talking about) almost have that hanging member with the same utility as the appendix.
The phenomenon of the feminization of the "uke" (the word is not to my liking) exists in the yaoi fandom and obeys forms that the writers understand the world and manifest in their writings. And, before playing relationships between people, to bear children right and left, you have to stop and think a bit about the "psychology of the character." It is easy to find a Wolfram effeminate or a nursing mother Shuichi their birth child or wearing clothes Fai strictly feminine and assume these actions as a natural part of how they act. But in "normal" life, men who could play some of these practices would be challenged to the core and themselves, would probably therapy in recent years because these "stereotypes" do not fit culturally and have to fight, or against it or to be accepted for who they choose to be.
Strange, then, how easy it is to impregnate Shuichi but never ask their psychological processes, how well it is understood, if male, if you want to be a woman, if is considered homosexual, etc. In fact, it seems easier to write about male pregnancy, to ask for reasons why a male character wears women's clothes or "feminized" what is the psychology behind a white wedding dress at a wedding between two men, etc.. In other words, most of fics written more about "women with penises" and less about love and personal experiences of gay men.
Being a woman and write about the relationship between two men is "not bad" or "is a mistake." Being a woman should not be provided to "represent something of a cloud" by the fact of being female. I remember a comment in a fic yaoi from someone who claimed the writer with ambiguous nickname "I thought you were a woman by the nick but your writing is very man , and am still feeling a Rosette to the idea that there something like "how to write a female and one male" and also something like "a way to write yaoi homosexual vs relations."
But it seems that such phenomenon is "society seems who was determined to force us to respond to the conditions set and we see it in figures, and as I hope that some day we read stories about personal relationships between two people, without which there is a special tag (or web) to differentiate between same-sex couples and different-sex couples, I also hope that writers and reading the questions are things in different ways. This is not moralizing or lecturing to say "that's where you're wrong" but to try to see things from a different angle and novel, something to try to understand how we see him making the effort " that another way which is "that transcends what we are and what they are and what society tries to impose arbitrarily.
As postscript, I would recommend quickly The Wandering Son, a manga and drama and gender bender, where the idea of "travesty" touch and clever enough, considering what it means for a guy who "wants to be a girl" and a girl "I'd rather be a boy" the passage from childhood to adolescence. XOXO
Petula Petunia
