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Recently I happened to read another series labelled as a yuri one despite the fact that the FMC is straight and the abused girl that she decides to help has no self will. I thought the trend had already died but it seems male authors keep making these kind of stories, with a shonen demographic target and the morbity traits to attract different readers. All of them follow the same pattern: FMC helps/saves the abused girl who was loyal to her abuser and changes ownership to the FMC, having the abused girl submitted and loyal to said FMC. Then they mask it as a friendship and claim that the few panels where they're close it's enough to claim it to be yuri. Readers that like the bulling/ryona or domination genre are supposed to be the target audience, but then supposed yuri fans defend that this is a genuine yuri series because someone put a tag or just because those few panels. An easy analogy would be making a cheesecake, adding a drop of honey and call the dish "a honey based dessert". Of course these fans are adamant, so there's no use arguing them, but the problem comes when they make it a reference. Thanks to series involving violence towards women in this way there's one can find recommendations of good yuri series when they're not yuri series, which bury down the ones that should be read/watch. The series that started this trend was Revolutionary Girl Utena, which is just a shoujo series with a pretentious development and adheres to what I described previously and regrettably is still a referent and therefore a bad influence both for authors and yuri fans. In three years it'll make thirty years that this twisted point of view is still reigning, I know that some people will ask my head but I couldn't let it slide further. I'd like to say this directly to the authors, but since it's not possible at least I want to warn new and not so new yuri fans not to get fooled by these series.