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A conversation made me curious so I looked up if there was any information, and found two very interesting posts by the same blogger.
Yuri isn’t Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans compiles existing information on Japanese creators and fans
Report on the Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey discusses a survey they ran in English speaking yuri fandom
"Yuri" is f/f manga and anime made in Japan, which has a very different culture and history to f/f made in English.
tl;dr: Analysis I've seen of English speaking femslash fandom has it being like 90% queer women. But English speaking yuri fandom is more evenly split between (mostly straight) men and (mostly queer) women, with a non-negligible number of non binary people. And while there's gender differences in how people approach yuri, they're not as big as you might expect. I find this a really interesting counterpoint to the general assumption that f/f for straight men and f/f for queer women involve completely separate and distinct genres and social groups.
More thoughts and numbers below the cut! Also a brief mention of works containing incest.
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Yuri isn’t Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans compiles existing information on Japanese creators and fans
Report on the Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey discusses a survey they ran in English speaking yuri fandom
"Yuri" is f/f manga and anime made in Japan, which has a very different culture and history to f/f made in English.
tl;dr: Analysis I've seen of English speaking femslash fandom has it being like 90% queer women. But English speaking yuri fandom is more evenly split between (mostly straight) men and (mostly queer) women, with a non-negligible number of non binary people. And while there's gender differences in how people approach yuri, they're not as big as you might expect. I find this a really interesting counterpoint to the general assumption that f/f for straight men and f/f for queer women involve completely separate and distinct genres and social groups.
More thoughts and numbers below the cut! Also a brief mention of works containing incest.
( Read more... )
