Re: Thoughts on crossplaying females in the bishounen auction 1 Year, 9 Months ago
In my opinion, as much as I respect and fight for the rights of women.. I'd have to say 'no' for the bishounen auction. The reason I believe it's called a "bishounen" auction is because it's a pretty boy auction and not a pretty girl dressed up as a boy auction.
Sure you can say a girl dressed up as a guy looks hot, and pretty and what not.. (in fact, I'd have to agree to a certain extent) but to call them a bishounen - in Japanese, at least, doesn't make sense.
This is a bishounen auction, so I'd have to say that it's only right to throw in "pretty guys" and not "pretty girls dressed as guys". If you had a "bishoujo" auction, I don't think it'd be appropriate to throw in a guy as well.