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Main Ukefication Discussion
Just read the entries for Black Butler, Hetalia, and Supernatural about ukefication. I'm going to bang my head against the wall after reading what fan fic writers have done to my favorite characters.
I just read through the entries for Yu Gi Oh and Death Note. Allow me to go shoot myself as I wonder what those ****ing fangirls did to my poor L!
I question the assertions made in two sections of this trope. One is that slash fans are simply using the "uke" as a proxy or surrogate to imagine themselves in a relationship with a seme. Through my experience reading yaoi, fanfiction, and scholarly research on yaoi, I've seen that a lot of readers are actually exploring different kinds of sexual and romantic roles women could have and/or are deprived of in reality through those relationships. If it was as simple as romantic/sexual "wish fulfillment" (i.e. wanting to get with the seme and do things with the seme that the uke is doing) as the writer of this trope states, why would there be so much physical abuse and rape, as many users have pointed out in specific examples, again and again? Or are they arguing that these female readers and writers wish to be raped and physically abused? There's obviously an amount of alienation from the uke as well as a kind of association/identification with the uke—that is more complex than mere wish-fulfillment. There is ample evidence, through close reading many works in both genres, to show that it also goes beyond merely fetishizing rape and abuse.
The other assertion is in the quote from Minotaur's Tips for Slash Writers, advises writers on realistically portraying gay men. But this has never been the aim of most yaoi or slash fanfiction: many of the characters featured in both do not identify as gay, and I would argue, as the writer of this trope does, that the men in yaoi and slash often don't represent real men either (however, as opposed to the uke being simply a vessel through which a female member of the audience can insert herself, the relationship itself is a slate through which women can experiment with different relationships without all the baggage tied to "women" and "men" in heterosexual relationships). As I mentioned before, female yaoi and slash writers and readers often seem to be exploring gender roles and relationships through these genres. I find it contradictory that the author of this page asserts that the uke is merely a proxy (representing a woman) then quotes someone who assumes the men in these genres are meant to represent men in the real world.
Nothing annoys this Kaibax Joey-shipping troper more than the reduction of strong, independent, badass, firey Cloud Cuckoo Lander Joey into a simpering, sugar-sweet submissive, "anything to please my Master" (EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!), weakling uke— except maybe turning KAIBA into an ultra-uke. WHY? WHHHYYYYY??
I've been on the Internet for years, I know I shouldn't be surprised about this, but... there is Nick Clegg/David Cameron slashfic?
(brain explodes).
Do you guys think this trope can be added to the Bad Writing index? After all, this is usually a subtrope of Out Of Character and Canon Defilement, and can also be a symptom of being a Possession Sue
I just wanted to add this about this point:
- In District Nine Slash Fic (what little there is), Wikus is generally turned from a mentally unstable and violent Half Human Hybrid to a scared little kitten who quickly abandons his smoking-hot wife for a seven foot tall grasshopper, and may or may not mother its children.