one of your favorite fantasies
Gallimard: No! I was about to say, it’s the first time I’ve
seen the beauty of the story.
Song: Really?
Gallimard: Of her death. It’s a … pure sacrifice. He’s unworthy, but what can she do? She loves him … so much. It’s a very beautiful story.”
Gallimard: Excuse me?
Song: It’s one of your favorite fantasies, isn’t it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man.
Yaoi allows the female reader to be the submissive oriental, but to retain some male privilege.
“The seme pursues the uke, and plots including nonconsensual
sexual encounters and rape are frequently part of the seme confessing and
proving his love for the uke. The uke is
inexperienced and reluctant in participating in sex while the seme uses sex to
persuade, at the very least, the uke into submission” (Brenner and Wildsmith, 97).