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Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 10:02
by 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
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 10:13
by unoduetre
Checking the papers…
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 10:17
by 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
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:06
by 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.
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:13
by Momogari
Well that's not confusing at all.
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:22
by unoduetre
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.
)
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:25
by 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!
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:28
by 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.
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:31
by unoduetre
Momogari wrote:Well that's not confusing at all.
[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention]
What do you mean?
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 01 Jun 2019, 11:37
by 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.
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 11 Jun 2019, 07:24
by Endynyp
I agree with Uno. This is a great area to be doing research in. Good on you.
Re: Yaoi/BL online survey
Posted: 11 Jun 2019, 08:35
by Moulders
Not so much use though when people like me complete multiple forms and lie to screw up the data.