quick question for those of you familiar

[kaigou]

...with yaoi-girls and/or (female) m/m fans. Of those you've known/met in the subculture who prefer the m/m and avoid the m/f, have any of them ever explained the reasoning behind their preference? Beyond just the younger version of "well, m/f is icky" or the lazier version of "I just don't like m/f". Anything more in-depth, more honest, more insightful?

Because the only explanations I've ever gotten amount to variations on those two, and that's not much substance when it comes to deconstructing what, exactly, is going on for readers with the preference.

Comments

[dogemperor]

Ah, understood there--well, to be perfectly honest, I really don't read a whole lot of romance, so I'm afraid I'm not a whole lot of help there. :P (Most of the romance I've read honestly tends to be fanfic, which STILL gets into the fandom thing.)

[kaigou]

Most of the romance I've read honestly tends to be fanfic, which STILL gets into the fandom thing.

It's not actually the issue of fandom that gives me trouble here, so much as the fact that I don't know too many fandoms currently (not really following very many, if at all), so the specifics and details are hard to determine/measure for universality. So to speak of tropes or trends or general patterns is easier, plus will facilitate seeing how those compare to ofic romance and romantic-subplots in non-romance genres, too. Hard to parse that out when I'm digging through details of a specific fandom, is all. XD