Why Yaoi: It's a Lifesaver as Nozomi Fujisaki Knows

In Cherry Magic, the live action series, Nozomi Fujisaki is a good friend to Adachi and one of the few who figures out that Adachi and Kurosawa are a couple. She is a happy single woman who understands his desire to step outside the "norm." 

In the manga series, Nozomi Fujisaki, also a friend to Adachi and Kurosawa, is a BL fan. 

Both versions make Nozomi a marvelous character. I analyze the character in the live action version here.

I appreciate the manga series Nozomi for the final page of Volume 11.

I can entirely relate. Without going into personal details--been there. There is something simply soul-destroying about the growing number of people in our society who think their job is to issue commentary on other people's lives/personalities, whatever direction that commentary is coming from. "I have an opinion and a label and psychological analysis, which I have the right to deploy because I'm offended that everyone isn't exactly the way I want them to be" has become not an exception but a norm (and, again, it is applied across the board).

Why does Yaoi/BL stop the death spiral? 

I think people seek out particular novels, poems, movies, visual arts to relieve them in not-so-great situations. Yaoi/BL specifically offers romance without the cultural insistence that any woman who loves romance must be indulging in wishful thinking: time to haul out the opinions and labels and psychological analysis. Okay, there are people who still think that. But the carping voices stay at a distance because the reader knows better: 

We love Yaoi/BL for the story and the characters. We love Yaoi/BL for the constructive positive view it takes of relationships and the universe.

That type of artistic appreciation still exists.