Also I don't really see them both being fujoshi to be that big of a deal, unless you really hate yaoi for some reason. The series will probably(hopefully) acknowledge himejoshi later on anyways.
The thing with fujoshi is that they can be rather extreme. (There is a reason the term means rotten).
Please don't mind if I have my doubts. I haven't seen himejoshi addressed properly in any manga before. At best there are avid yuri fans, but that is always disconnected from otaku culture or the term isn't even acknowledged.
I really don't understand why so many yuri fans are against yaoi
LIke I said in my previous post, most yuri fans in Japan are into both.
But if you are specifically in a yuri community you will have more hardliners who enjoy only one genre. I still see a lot of people on Dynasty who are totally fine with yaoi and even endorse it being released here.
Yaoi has a lot of downsides (like predatory dynamics, "yaoi hands", tiny head, ridiculous fetishization, complete misrepresentation of homosexual men in general and so on). But there is no genre without such flaws I would say. I won't make a difference between a yuri or yaoi rape doujin... they are both the worst.
But the stark truth is that fujoshis are the majority of female otaku. Another painful truth is that most Japanese girls who like yuri are straight girls and they tend to also like BL.
These are stereotypes, not truths, especially the latter claim! The little information that's available on the demographics of the yuri subculture (both in the "West" and in Japan) suggests that heterosexual women are outnumbered by non-heterosexual women. (Ex.) Unless the "most female yuri fans are straight fujoshi" argument has any supporting evidence, I don't think it's fair to take it as truth by default.
I think we got something mixed up there. In general the main audience for both yuri and yaoi are straight girls. It's aimed at them, because they are the biggest customer base and for Japanese girls yuri is not too extreme to read most of the time. I just straight up don't believe that non-hetero women outnumber straight girls in this case, because that's not what the magazines aim for.
Actually, there is also a large portion of yuri that is written for and read by a male audiences. That was basically what Yuri Hime S was all about. You can often tell which audience was being targeted by looking at the sort of works being published. Stories like Still Sick, or Bloom into You which are very character and story centric romances are geared more towards women where manga that are less concerned about the actual relationships and more geared towards fan service or cgdct are more likely to be aimed at males. Admittedly there is a ton of overlap but it's disingenuous to suggest there aren't yuri stories out there written for and read by what are basically gender inverted fujoshis.
