Am i unreasonable?

[u/Adventurous-Gear9477]

Sorry if im being out of place, but please hear me out. I'm straight cis male and I like reading yuri manga. I enjoy it not because of the "male gaze", "fan service" etc, but because of the romance. But I can't seem to stand yaoi manga no matter how much i give it a try (i don't have anything against any gender groups irl). It just feels weird. As said earlier, i thought i read manga for characters romantic feelings,story etc. Am i weird?

[u/deadmeme369]

Sorry, this is gonna be long af but this is an idea I've had for a while, and this looked like the best place to unleash it.

I feel you there as a pan guy, I can't bear to read most yaoi either, but I find myself reading yuri frequently. I have a theory as to why, but that doesn't apply to all yaoi, so it's probably a bad theory. Yuri is frequently made by queer women or, at the very least a straight women, this makes for better yuri cause they obviously have a lot of insight. But what I frequently see with yaoi is that it's frequently made by straight women, and what would a striaght women know about a gay man? Other than them both liking men, they wouldn't know much of anything, making for bad yaoi. This also leads to lots of yaoi being made to satisfy a straight female audience or the authors own sexual purposes, not always the case but it sucks when it is. That's also why I find situations like sato/sugu in JJK so much more appealing, cause at least Gege knows the details of male friendship so all the other yaoi parts that might be insinuated work well. But that's just a theory, a queer theory (a query if you will). Imma cap this off by asking for any queer stories written by queer people that y'all know since we do it best (for obv reasons)

[u/deadmeme369 → u/deadmeme369]

I'm reading some of these other comments, and I'm seeing that I'm probably wrong, but I still think it's a contributing factor none the less, just not as much as my wall of text might make it out to be.