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Yea...and I think in part it's mostly black guys who get them, and while I'm half black, I'm just not physically attracted to black guys. Same thing with afros, because weirdly enough I tend to like the "jew-fro," and it's a very similar things. Although also, dreadlocks a lot of times have a very unkempt/unclean apperance to them, which is a bit of a turnoff for me.

Hmm, maybe it's a CA thing ^_~.

Yea I also don't really like the ratty ones - like the Caribbean/Jamaican type style. They don't necessarily look quite as unkempt but still. Oh I know I do, though it changes, probably more but what demographic I'm around - although yea, not being attracted to black people does tend to remain constant. And then I usually am always attracted to white. Though at different times I'll either be attracted to Hispanics, Asians, Asian-Indian/Middle Eastern. I think Asian was the longest though, but lately it's mostly been white. Or mixed, I do tend to rather like mixed. I am mixed for one, and I just like the idea of blending. Racism will get so much harder when things are more swirled. I mean what, are people really going to sit there and say "I only approve of people who are 1/8th Irish, 1/16th Tagalog, 1/64th Taiwanese, 1/16th Caribbean black, etc..."?!? I think not.

Well, considering the world used to have one landmass - not 7, I kind of feel that despite debate we all started the same race. And then evolved differently based on environmental influences. I can't imagine us all ever melding down to one again - barring a natural disaster exterminating most of the population. I do imagine that distinctions based on ethnic differences might one day, in the very distant future (because most countries are still very self-contained), be difficult to draw, possibly impossible. Although technology makes record keeping much easier.

Exactly, I mean I like differences, but they do also breed resentment/fear/hatred. And those aren't things I like. If we have to give up some differences, or make differences less recognizably other, to eradicate these things, then so be it.

I keep wanting to go to the puppyshipping thread every time I come in here. Just because it's weird being on a puzzleshipping thread. Even if totally off topic. I mean I've never particularly cared for this pairing at all. I don't hate it (although I dunno if there are any YGO pairings I HATE...hmm...have to think about that), but it just does nothing for me. Probably because Yuugi in my mind is a 12 year old girl, even when he's being perverted in the manga. He's then just a weird 12 year old girl. razz

Anyhow...I wish a lot of things. But yea, despite the difference we are still mostly the same stuff. I mean I think the medical field alone proves that. Sure certain genetic sequences, sometimes related to ethnicity (which is playing into nationality) are more susceptible to certain diseases. Or harder to treat in certain ways. It's harder to find exact matches for transplants for say African Americans because they are so mixed in race - which really just points out to how they aren't as inbred as a lot of people still are. xd

But then, there are plenty of people who don't believe in medicine. When there are people who can't believe in proof, there isn't much to be done. And I should probably head to work now and prowl around here more when I get there, well, when I have dead time.

I know I thought that too sometimes and almost would relate whatever I was writing back to puppyshipping and then realized, oh wait, it's not that thread. I think the only pairing I care for with Yami no Yuugi is prideshipping, which is so not high on my list anymore, and really it's just because I'll whore Seto to anybody I at least semi like. Except not Rex or Mokuba, both are way too weird. MokubaxSeto and Elricest are probably my two big NO incest pairings. And one other, but I won't mention that because it's canon to it's series and I'm not sure if you are familiar with that at all, don't wanna ruin things. Anyhow I think those two are for the same reason, Mokuba and Al are not sexual for me, so it's just doubly creepy to put non-sexual characters into a taboo.

Ugh, don't even get me started on the medicinal thing. But yea, definitely!

Well that's the things, pairings are at least implied sexual. I mean asexuality in humans is rare, and chances of two in one family almost impossible. So pretty much there will be a physicality to a pairing, besides, I wouldn't have any interest in a pairing if it didn't have a physical aspect to it. I mean people can like whatever they want, I particularly don't care. When it comes to the fictional world at least anything goes (real life is a different story, although even there the world is very shades of gray). It's just for me personally there are pairings I find hot, there are pairings I'm indifferent to, and then there are the few pairings that creep me out. Those are some of them, for reasons stated. Others might be pairings with characters I find repulsive. Nobody wants to imagine those that physically revolt them getting it on. razz

Popularity isn't really a turn off for me, I mean again I don't ever get heavily involved in fandoms, so I don't usually come across the annoying people (except in Twilight, where they are a plague that can't be avoided ~_~). But I've always known what I've liked, and mass opinion doesn't influence me in the slightest. I don't care if everyone loves it, I don't care if everyone hates it. I'm extremely narcissistic, so the only thing that matters is what I think. I can't be bothered to notice anything else (there are reasons I love Kaiba, hehehe). I do get that though as one of my best friends is that way. I think the reason she hates puppyshipping so much is that it's popular. It probably wouldn't bug her as a pairing if so many other people didn't like it. I mean I guess it can be irritating when you are looking for something else and that's all you can find. But whatever, that doesn't bother me.

And Silentshipping, I always have to look up what that is, I never really stumble across anything for it so I'll just take your word that it's popular. I mean I guess I can see on the basis of who they are why that might be liked, but as they have virtually no interaction with each other I think it's a lot harder to jump on. Unlike Prideshipping whereas you can totally see why it's popular, their lives are quite intertwined.

Umm...no that's not canon. Akito and Yuki are SO not a pairing, Akito is slightly obsessed with him because of all the rat prestige, but that's about it. I don't even think you can really read anything romantic into it, that would be very assumptive. Anyhow they both end up paired elsewhere.

I don't think any of the Fruba incest pairings bother me actually, probably because almost ALL the pairings in that show are incest, haha. Ok not quite, but you sure get a lot of it, but that's probably because the show revolves around a very self contained family. There are 3 established pairings by the end, and then established one-sided interests. Hopefully this still doesn't bother you since you said you didn't care before about spoiling Fruba, I will say that I don't care for the pairing Akito does end up in, and yes it's incestuous I suppose. But that's more about not liking Akito (in the manga) than an objection to the pairings. So that really only makes the indifference list.

I don't even mean sex as just in like intercourse, just in physical interaction of a non-platonic scale. So even if I have no interest in "sex" itself per say, a fluff pairing to me is still going to have a connective level that a non pairing would not. I mean while I've never even had sex really, I have been preoccupied with it for a long majority of my life. I have vented my sexual frustrations into sexual research, har har. Sexuality is a giant grey area, it's why I have a hard time with a lot of sex crimes - on the one hand criminalizing someone who does not want to be is bad, but on the other the motivations behind these actions isn't necessarily criminal over instinctual (sometimes yes, it's very criminal, but that's not the grey). However I still can very easily slice it into sexuality, not sexuality. I mean the point of pairing is to push into the realm of relationship, and yea, in fiction not all relationships bug me, even of the taboo sort. But some do, not that I care if other people like them, but they are a non-platonic entity, and that's the thing. There are just characters who are always platonic to me. And thus, I generally don't like them forced out of that platonic state (for myself), and it's especially worse if they are forced into an even more alternative state, such as a taboo - like incest, bestiality, necrophilia, etc.

Yea, most of the YGO fandom I know is the yaoi community, which has no place for Shizuka and her woman parts (although Mai apparently gets in from time to time, don't even ask me to try and explain that one).

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Well, Akito is a chick remember, and she locks Yuki up and whatever, but there is nothing sexual going on. She's just an extreme misogynist, does not like any of the female zodiac (or any other females), hates her mother, and jealously wants all the men to only pay attention to her. She dosn't even want most of them sexually, she's just possessive, in charge, and they are HERS!

Akito gets paired with Shigure. Haru with Rin (the horse), Kureno (rooster) with Arisa (Tohru's blond friend), Kisa and Hiro implied (but they are both too young at series end to really ever know), Tohru and Kyou yes (which I don't like at all), Yuki and Machi (which doesn't bother me at all, I like them and I like her, she's this quiet girl on student council, only in the manga), Ayame with Mine (his seamstress/assistant), Hatori with the teacher (blanking on her name, who always loved him but was friends with Kana, the girl he was originally supposed to marry before Akito got angry and blinded him). Ritsu (the cross dressing monkey - yea he's straight) with Shigure's editor whose always freaking out because he can't do deadlines. Kagura and Momiji are left unpaired and alone, which is just kind of depressing as everyone else was SO over paired. I mean I don't really like Kagura, although she does get less annoying after she first admit the reason she loves Kyou is because she felt sorry for him. Which made her feel better about herself, because he's more pathetic than her. It's a love based on hate and condemnation, lovely right? Anyhow she also backs off and gets a clue after this so she gets on my nerves less, still can't say I ever care for her. But I ADORE Momiji, his life just gets sadder and sadder, and he remains pretty optimistic even though in the end as far as you know he really just eternally gets screwed over. Ah, but as much as I resent that it's part of why I love him so much. It ends with Kyou and Tohru as old people which REALLY annoys me, with few exceptions I hate random leap into the distant future! It over ends everything, and to no purpose (I think the one series where I do like this ending it has a grand purpose and concludes beautifully). So yea, I really like Fruba through volume 22, even though yes I encounter what will inevitably be pairings long before then. But the way it just all ties up is what really sets me against the ending. And everyone but Momiji (and possibly Kagura) lives happily ever after (even Akito who was a horrible horrible person throughout the entire series, was a discredit to her gender, and deserves a good shanking). The end!

The series I was talking about was Vampire Knight, that is the last incest pairing I can't stand. You familiar with the series? I stopped reading the manga after a point because I really couldn't stomach it anymore, and I do plan to go back eventually, but we'll see I guess.

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