True, after all everyone know that women are a hive mind and that they all act the exact same way. We all know that women dont act differently depending on their culture, the place they are born, their social status nor anythings else...
There is not such things as Yuri portraying women or lesbian weirdly. Women are just human, they come in all sort of way, their relationship with other also come in all sort of way.
Yuri, before western feminist swarmed it, had way less sex, and was a normal romance genre... The enjoyer did not like it because, contrary to you, they did not self insert in these story. They enjoyed it as a normal reader.
Most People enjoying Yuri did not enjoy it because of some weird fetish like you people try to pretend. Yuri was always a genre liked because it was sweet and chill. Stop projecting.
An interesting take. You're right that women aren't a singularity. You're also right that different cultures express romance, especially gay romance, in a different way (often those ways are built upon the idea that being gay is wrong and/or dangerous but still). That's not really what I meant though, I actually read a lot of GL series (and yeah i like to self-insert
sometimes, guys self insert all the time, why can't I?). It's just that I've also read enough to have seen a ton of 1-dimensional series in which every character exists only to blush and kiss and ****, and have no real depth or humanity. It's amazing how much horny junk food gets serialized, regardless of orientation.
I wasn't insinuating that yuri exists
exclusively for men, that doesn't even make any sense. In fact I was kinda tying into your point about the fetishization. It feels like a lot of series substitute horniness for good writing, and they
seem to do this in a way that is intended to draw the hetero-man demographic in order to boost sales. Obviously this exists in het-romance series as well, perhaps I internally feel it's less notable because it doesn't feel like using sexual orientation as a fetish?
In fact, this series is that particular brand of het-oriented junkfood. The lead doesn't even like girls right? She's straight(or at least male-leaning bi, and possibly aromantic), but doesn't want to keep dying. So she
has to fuck girls even though she actually wants to fuck guys. Tbh I wasn't even planning on reading the next chapter, it looks kinda funny but also kinda gross.
Of course, there are series that are just plain better than that. Many of the best romances I've ever read were GL. I'm just saying that it exists, however, I will reiterate that perhaps I was exaggerating the amount of yuri that does this. When I wrote that comment I was being pissy after hate-re-reading the bss in a GL(? the "straight" girl in the pair gets the gay girl's help to seduce guys she's dating. I hate series that make the gay girl into the absolute last option for love that the "straight" girl settles for. I'm getting mad again) series that seemed like it wasn't going to go as far as it did. I think ntr is funny, but naturally I still get hit by the ouch on the rare occasion that it manages to slip through my defenses. It's just that ntr/bss/whatever is usually applied to man characters so it just bores me instead of hurting me.
Anyways yapyapyap I know I talk too much.