Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

more stories, and sharing funny tidbits about a high school girl named Camy,
who writes about gay sex as if it was between a man and a woman. Another is
Yuri, who copies and pastes pieces of her role playing game to me. It is a
Harry Potter game, she plays Harry, and innuendo with Draco is not just
abundant, but moreover hilarious. Meanwhile, we are quizzing each other
over Instant Messenger on Japanese grammar structures for a test the
following day.
This is a text on slash and yaoi fans, women who read, talk, and write
about men who have sex with men. And though I would have liked to place a
concise ethnographic narrative, explicating the topic and issues at hand here,
this was not possible. Until a few weeks ago, I was very uncertain as to why
writing an introspective introduction would be so difficult, but soon I learned
that, instead of slowly easing the reader into this text, I would have to ask
her/him to take a plunge, in order to lead her/him out to the shore again.
A close friend, Red, finally made me understand the mechanics of my
predicament. I was sitting with her at a coffee shop, complaining that I had too
much information, too many details, to sift out a single moment of
ethnography to put at the very beginning of this text. I asked her to choose an
aspect of the activities of one of the fans I had worked with to place at the
beginning of this text. I wanted to give my reader a glimpse of what it means
to be a fan, but she shook her head and replied that all of the persons I had
described were “professionals.”
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