I was not quite familiar with the fact that Bara is a term for BL that appeals to men, I only saw occasional art of it which made me think it is focused on bulky men, not unlike the "bears" of real gay communities.
Bara literally translates to "Rose", it comes from some LGBT magazine back in the day that called men the "rose tribe" and women the "lily tribe" (which is where we got the term Yuri from as well).
Yaoi is actually an acronym for YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi, which means "No climax, no point, no meaning". Pretty harsh, isn't it?
Actually I think there is a trope of girls that are zealots for same-sex relationships and basically support anything other than heterosexual pairings. The two genres can exist in a peaceful parallel after all.
Those people do actually exist in real life.
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