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"This is a subgenra of manga (comics from Japan) called yaoi: which depicts "boy love" or men or sometimes teenagers boys in sexual situations. This is a fad that has become increasingly popular with young girls 12-13 and there are even yaoi conventions now. I am concerned since this is now freely available at your local bookstore right alongside some rather innocent manga titles out in the open instead of the adult section where they belong. I was just wondering if any parents had heard of this and what your reaction was. do a wikepedia search or look on anime forums."
I particularly like the phrase "feely available." Because, you know, it's not like bookstores are there to sell customers items they wish to purchase without making judgments about those items or restricting access to them.
" Gross. That's just disgusting. What on earth would a girl find appealing about that? Not that anyone would find it appealing, but why young girls?"
Well, I know what I find appealing about "gay porn," and while I've heard various theories cited as to why young girls enjoy gay porn and/or yaoi manga, I'm not certain there is a singular, easy to articulate answer to that question.
"There is a lot of perversion to to be found in Japanese culture, they simply do not have the same values we (pretend to) have in the US. This does not mean that all anime/manga contains objectionable content, but there is still a lot to be found (and I wish that Yaoi were the worst of it, but it's not)."
Yah! Let's hear it for cultural supremacism! It's not that Japanese culture is simply different from our own, no, it's "perverted."
"Here in the US, many of our superhero comics are not suitable for young teens anymore, either. A recent news item was about how Batwoman is going to come back to the comics, as a lesbian."
Ah, yes. It all comes back to that somehow, doesn't it?