I think I have read more “normal” novels that have more women as dumb cannon fodders than I have in danmei. I personally hate it when people say danmei are only there as a gay fetishizing platform. Hey there, there are a ton of danmei (Chinese gay novels) that don’t “fetishize” gay relationships or portray women as dumb cannon fodders. People who came to read GDC after watching the Untamed didn't do any research and believed it to be a regular cultivation novel, therefore getting REALLY upset about the fact that there was kissing and, OMG, sex! It was to the point that I was actually getting emails from people asking if I could please send them the 'real' version of the novel without our added fujoshi fetishizing and others who asked if they could use our translation so they could delete all the yaoi elements and make it 'more like the Untamed with only bromance.' It's one of the reasons I added a disclaimer to the first chapter of GDC to be honest. I get a little defensive over the term 'fetishizing gay relationships' because we were once accused of changing GDC's (MDZS) plot from the original raw and adding in the BL/yaoi elements and scenes to 'please our fujoshi fetishes.' Every once in a while, I still delete comments on our site from people claiming we changed GDC. No worries! I was just trying to answer to the best of my abilities and to give as indepth reasonings as I was able in a small span of time.
