the key inaccuracy you see in sports yaoi a lot isn’t actually people not knowing how these games and leagues work it’s people who don’t watch sports having no metric for what kind of gay stuff is acceptable for straight guy athletes to do together and what kind of gay stuff is gay
Feb 4, 2026 17:36my authority on this topic is that i played sports in a conservative rural town as a teenager and we would play this fun and interesting game where when it was a girl’s birthday every other girl in the locker room had to chase her and then hold her down and spank her once for each year old she was
there's a book, "Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men", which talks about the homosexual and homoerotic ways that straight men in homosocial environments (like sports) use objectively gay behavior to construct heteromasculinity. I think about it alot when I watch sports yaoi
Truly. A veteran player taking a rookie under his wing to the point where his teammates call him "[Last name]'s rookie"? Normal. Teammate coming over for breakfast every morning because he doesn't cook and his buddy/his buddy's wife does? Normal.
alas i think they’re assuming that because it’s homophobic it is not also homoerotic when, as with almost every masculine pursuit that’s kind of homophobic, the exact opposite is true
