Apparently, I offended someone.

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Yup. You read right. I apparently offended someone on this site with a wee little stamp I made 6 years ago. When little ol' me was in the middle of high school.

This stamp to be exact:
Stamp - Poo to Yaoi by GiantPurpleCat

Okay, I will not reveal the person, but I will copy what they said about this particular stamp.

"Do you even know what the word "yaoi" means to everyone? No, ok it means different things to different people. To some it means m/m porn, to others it means paring m/m characters together romantically, and to others it just means gay couples. You might not like what you think is "yaoi" but you had to go and make a dirty stamp like this? Calling something that means a lot to many different people stupid? Do you understand how much this actually can mean? For me, personally, and I mean "yaoi" and "yuri" here, it meant freedom when I first saw it. As I was a closeted pansexual for the longest time (I didn't get comfortable with it until I was about 17, that means all of high-school I was attracted to males and females and confused and hiding it and thinking I was wrong and stupid.) When I got somewhat comfortable with myself and I went online and found that there were large groups of people supporting sexual freedom like this in fandoms I was FUCKING HAPPY! It made me feel like there was a place I could be accepted. But yes, it's stupid. Something that could make people like me, who have to deal with backlash every day, from their own families even, stupid. Wow you are a fucking genius."

Okay, wow. Just, wow.

This person amazes me. No, really. They do.

I, in fact, do know what the term "yaoi" means. It means "No climax, no point, no meaning" . Yaoi is just gay porn and potrays men as rape machines and objects. I don't know how books about gay porn meant it "gave you freedom", seriously. That does sound way too silly. That's like me looking at Playboy magazines and then I come out and say "it gave me the freedom to express my sexual orientation".

The same applies to Yuri. It objectifies women and turn them into fap material for the reader.

I do not have a problem with this person being a pansexual but the fact that they have the nerve to say I "insulted" them, for saying that yaoi is stupid, is beyond stupid. I did not insult this person in anyway, whatsoever, with this stamp. The stamp I made is basically saying that I don't like yaoi. I didn't make this stamp as an insult to gay people.

And using the term "yaoi" to describe gay couples is actually really insulting. Sure, I'm not a homosexual and this never happened to me, but I feel like it's so stupid to call them "yaoi couples" just because they're gay and together. I mean seriously? I don't look at lesbians and say "Oh look, a yuri couple." That sounds insulting and stupid. There's a term for people like that, they're called "homosexuals", "gay" or "lesbian" and etc.. Not "yaoi" or "yuri" couples.

Yeah, I understand there's people who don't understand the term of said words, but like a school of fish, they just follow the crowd and use the words according to said crowd.

TL: DR;

What I'm trying to say is, don't use a term like "yaoi" and/or "yuri" to describe homosexual couples. That's not how it works. Yaoi and Yuri stories/books/whatever are fap material meant to appeal to a certain gender. They both turn a gender into objects and sex machines. This doesn't make homosexuals look any better. It makes them look like a toy/sex object so that the reader has something to fap or "get off" on.

And kids, don't follow a crowd when you don't know the true meaning of a word. Go do your research and look it up instead. You'll be surprised.
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Porcelain-Requiem's avatar
:XD: Nothing but 'tolerance!'

This is such a joke! And I love that people are trying to censor you by telling you to take it down because it offends people. It's an opinion guys! Put on your pants and deal!