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A fact from Yuri (genre) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 March 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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The result was: promoted by
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 06:53, 24 March 2021 (UTC)reply
... that use of the term yuri to describe a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters likely originates from
a gay men's magazine Source:
Yuricon
ALT1:... that most early yuri works, a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters, were
tragedies focused on doomed relationships that ended in separation or death? Source: Drawing Out Lesbians: Blurred Representations of Lesbian Desire in Shōjo Manga
ALT2:... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters? Source: Women-Loving Women in Modern Japan
Improved to Good Article status by
Morgan695 (
talk). Self-nominated at 19:21, 6 March 2021 (UTC).reply
The article became a GA on time. I assume good faith on a few of the references. A QPQ has been completed. All hooks are directly cited (I took care of one). My only issue is that reference 44 is unreliable considering any user can submit their reviews to the website.
SL93 (
talk) 04:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I am approving ALT2 because I feel that Sailor Moon, being one of the most known anime still today, will help bring viewers along with the definition of the genre.
SL93 (
talk) 18:01, 22 March 2021 (UTC)reply
equivalents of fujoshi and fudanshi
腐女子 (rotten girl) and 腐男子 (rotten boy) are are the terms for female and male fans of yaoi.
Are there terms like these for denoting fans of yuri?
WakandaQT (
talk) 18:41, 6 August 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure, but there are likely equivalents out there. --
Historyday01 (
talk) 19:28, 6 August 2021 (UTC)reply
"Himedanshi" for men, but it might be hard to find an RS on it.
Sandtalon (
talk) 23:46, 12 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the heads up; I've revised the History section to incorporate this article.
Morgan695 (
talk) 17:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Great! Yeah, I thought the article was a pretty good overview. ANN is starting to do more articles like that one, which is great, and diversify those who write reviews, so its not just a bunch of men. --
Historyday01 (
talk) 17:31, 19 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Terminology
On 2nd January 2022, I edited the Yuri (genre) artcle to replace 'lesbianism' with 'lesbian relationships'. This is because 'lesbianism' is a word used primarily by homophobes to imply that lesbians have an ulterior motive. Although I do not think that is the intent of its use in the article, many people take offence to the term because of how it is used without being any more encyclopeadic than 'lesbian relationships', which gets the point across without being associated with homophobia.
Another user has reverted this edit with the default edit summary for use of the 'Undo' button. I am starting this topic to avoid getting into an edit war with the other user, discover why my edit was reverted, and whether or not it was a good edit. This is the difference in revisions of my edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Yuri_%28genre%29&type=revision&diff=1063365120&oldid=1060675438
Wikipedia is not a soapbox, and a claim such as "'lesbianism' is a word used primarily by homophobes to imply that lesbians have an ulterior motive" needs to be backed up by more than your own assertion that this is indeed the case. I'll let other editors weigh in, but personally the claim that "lesbianism" is some kind of homophobic dog whistle and not a widely used term to describe individuals with a specific sexual identity seems spurious on its face. In any case, this article talk page is not a productive avenue to litigate this issue, given that "lesbianism" is a term used widely across the encyclopedia (see
Radical lesbianism,
History of lesbianism,
Media portrayal of lesbianism, etc.) I would recommend starting a discussion at
WikiProject LGBT studies or the
Teahouse.
Morgan695 (
talk) 20:36, 5 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Seems to me,
Sunrise Minecraft's edit was an improvement. "Lesbian relationships" is inoffensive, "lesbianism" sounds a bit weird, and reminds me of
Auberon Waugh's humourously offensive remarks about "homosexualists".
Maproom (
talk) 22:08, 6 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Morgan695's argument is perfectly valid. If there are articles that have "lesbianism" in their title, then this a larger issue than should be taken up in this one article. The issue should be taken up with
WP:LGBT at the very least to try to form a consensus as to whether lesbianism is in fact considered offensive or not.--十八 00:42, 7 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Nominal Sexual Content Update?
The "Nominal sexual content" section is entirely based on one source from 2010 and doesn't reflect the more recent changes in the yuri genre. As mentioned in the section "2010s-present: Genre diversification", yuri works have grown a lot in recent years and included in this is changes in sexual content. Some of these include very popular works like Bloom Into You and Kase-san featuring their main couples reaching the stage of sex (Bloom Into You's sex scene is very de-sexualized but explicit, Kase-san's is more of a fade to black scenario), others such as My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It, Looking Up To Magical Girls/Gushing Over Magical Girls, How Do We Relationship?, and Asumi-chan Is Interested In Lesbian Brothels, are all popular and more heavily focus on the sexual aspects of lesbian relationships. Along with Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It, many others of the recent influx of adult oriented (as in of adults/working people) yuri works don't shy away from sex. I don't know how common the sexual aspects are in relation to yaoi or het works if that's the basis of this section, but I do think it could use updating to better reflect the current state of yuri.
Orangechrisy (
talk) 21:22, 19 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Hmm. The "2010s-present: Genre diversification" cites
an Anime News Network piece and
Mary Sue piece, but neither specifically talks about sexual content beyond, in the Mary Sue piece saying "...yuri isn’t supposed to capture adult sexual relationships", "she tells the reader about her codependent desire for a mother figure and its sexual manifestation" (in reference to My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness/"Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuzoku Ni Ikimashita"), while the ANN piece just talking about the genre generally, not about any sexual content. The piece
on Japanpowered (by Chris Kincaid) linked in the Mary Sue piece, does the same, in terms of talking about the genre.
While saying all of that, I'd support updating the section as long as there are reliable sources (i.e. authors which have talked about sexual content in yuri in recent years), to support those changes. There might be something about this within By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga.
Historyday01 (
talk) 12:59, 20 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Should we seriously discuss this? Even if we forget that as a genre describing lesbian relationships, yuri is quite wide and varied (not to mention the platonic yuri), I thought that the ignorant division of yuri into sexual and not died back in the late 00s. I think it won't be a problem to just replace it with more up-to-date sources (or more neutral ones from resources like Yuricon), or even remove it if it supports legacy assertions.
Solaire the knight (
talk) 13:54, 20 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I agree. I also think it wouldn't be a problem to replace it with more up-to-date sources.
Historyday01 (
talk) 13:57, 20 May 2023 (UTC)reply