Yaoi/BL online survey

[UKFujoshi]

Hello, I’m a yaoi/BL fan and researcher at the University ofLeeds, UK. If you like yaoi/BL, I would be really grateful if you wouldcomplete my online survey: https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey
If you like, you can view my academic profile and yaoi/BLresearch here: https://leeds.academia.edu/AnnaMadill/Boys'-Love-Manga-Research-Papers
Many thanks, Professor Anna Madill

[unoduetre]

Checking the papers…

[unoduetre]

Reading: "Men on the market: Feminist analysis of age-stratified male–male romance in Boys’ Love manga." (draft)

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80840450.pdf

[unoduetre]

I'm happy people are discussing (idiotic [in my humble opinion] elements of) Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (a part of the UK law) in academia.

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101791/1 ... sation.pdf

The legislation invites a literal reading through implying that given criteria coherent for the assessment of representational texts (e.g., photographs of children) can be applied also to non-representational texts (i.e., fantasy drawings) and awarded moral status similar to that of the real (e.g., that protagonist age in manga can, within the ordinary everyday parameters of impression, be determined has been critiqued above). Perhaps even more problematic, the legislation invites a singular reading of texts through priming a search for the reified elements by a defined audience (magistrates, District Judge, or jury) under the remit that a certain constellation may warrant prohibition. Specifically, it alerts hegemonically-empowered or hegemonically-representational groups to a paedophilic reading and disavows other possible readings as irrelevant if these groups can find that reading.

[Momogari]

Well that's not confusing at all.

[unoduetre]

Reading: "Men on the market: Feminist analysis of age-stratified male–male romance in Boys’ Love manga." (draft)

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80840450.pdf

I like the perspective used in this paper. I wanted to check if it is yet another paper blaming yaoi for being homophobic etc., but it's an opposite of that. Instead the author described how yaoi can be used as a fantasy world to reanalyse patriarchal relationships in the society. That's nice.

(But Lacan and Freud are still unscientific. )

[unoduetre]

A side note:

Damn, I wish I could get a grant to buy and read 234 manga!

I wonder if the manga are now a property of the university library or they got sold. If they are, the University of Leeds has a great yaoi collection now!

[unoduetre]

Yeah, yaoi fans, take part in this survey for (social) science!!!

I don't think I can consider myself a fan, not because I don't like it, but because I haven't read enough of it.

[unoduetre]

Well that's not confusing at all.

[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention]

What do you mean?

[unoduetre]

[mention=114496]UKFujoshi[/mention]

Thank you for doing the research on manga. I wonder if it might influence the law in any way (e.g. by providing a well-researched source of information), but it would be great if it did.

[Endynyp]

I agree with Uno. This is a great area to be doing research in. Good on you.

[Moulders]

Not so much use though when people like me complete multiple forms and lie to screw up the data.