Talk:Yaoi
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Yamete kudasai, oshiri ga itai yo! ("Please stop, my butt hurts!") is not what yaoi stands for, but it's a common enough humorous expansion to deserve some mention somewhere ....
- I thought it was yamette, oshiri itai... well, but that's the shorthand version anyway. -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:09, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- That's correct. It's a made-up, humorous backronym. - Montréalais 15:34, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
jaoi? With a j? RickK 04:21, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- What? Not like an english j-sound, anyway... If you are talking about IPA or Sampa, it would be j...
Regarding the pronunciation, sound like "Yow-ee" rather than "Ya-oy" is in fact precisely the wrong way around for Japanese -- is it commonly mispronounced in the US? Jpatokal 14:23, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Some psychologists have claimed that Yaoi is a hidden form of lesbian pointing out that the role reversals occure very frequently.
I can't make any sense of this. Which psychologists? What role reversals? How does this relate to lesbianism? Can somebody who's more familiar with this subject explain and/or rewrite the sentence? —67.69.189.36 13:29, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I can't either. The only thing I remember is reading an article in the Los Angeles Times describing why young girls are so attracted to yaoi when it was talking about Anime Expo. -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:13, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
joke
I took out the 'joke' part of the yaoi entry. I don't think it belongs at all. And it is offensive. If you are only posting it to be funny, post it in a forum instead, not on a serious website which is devoted to scholarly research. This seems like something a twelve year old would include.
Reactions from conservatives?
I am surprise that with so much implied Yaoi in anime, that none of the conservative group take actions against anime... I mean, they can even do that to Spongebob... so it surprised me, you know.
Added back the correct pronounciation - All 3 syllables are pronounced. Ya-oy is incorrect.
Ya-oy is incorrect, as is Yow-ee. The word is an acronym, so the "oi" is not a diphthong.