#gay and sad is muh brand

[urfavcrime]

going to buy some poetry books anyone can recommendations

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

According to Tumblr trends it is now "Lesbian week of visibility" 🙄

I seem to remember a bunch of people on this website acting like it was weird and obsessive that Hobby Lobby sells Christian decor lol... but man, these people genuinely seem to have nothing better to structure their lives around than ~not being straight~

So every other day needs to be some kinda validation for who you want to sleep with.

It's beyond sad. The same people who think being "queer" is a radical act beg the mainstream for validation and drool over any politician or brand or multinational corporation that pretends to care about them. They'll cut their entire families out of their lives for perceived slights or not towing the radical leftist line and then spend the rest of their life trying to replace them with soulless entities like corporations and politicians and activism. It's just very, very sad and pathetic.

Lesbian week of visibility is hilarious though, because the vast majority of "muh kweer representation" in media and society is lesbians. I've always called lesbians in media the "safe gays", because the'yre the easiest way to have "gay" representation that's acceptable to most customers. Straight guys won't be icked out by two girls kissing. Feminists get two female characters in a scene. The alphabet soup ligbits will deepthroat any representation they get. Make one of the women black and the diversity racists will be happy. Lesbians are such an easy way to quickly tick multiple representation boxes at once that they're pretty much the laziest form of public facing gay rep out there. But yeah, lesbians are "invisible" and need a whole week to flick their...egos. XD

[piduai]

I know this is kind of random, but what do you think of Utena as a character?

are you a mind reader? i was thinking about this yesterday. i think we have a connection, bestie. i don't like her. i don't like her as a character - i find her annoying and obnoxious, i know that the premise of the series is maturing and making choices, breaking out of your shell, revolutionizing the self by killing the old and being reborn, so utena being a transformative character in itself makes perfect sense, but i still find her constant hesitation and indecisiveness taxing. mind you it's been a loooong time since i last watched sku and i tend to just forget why this or that character pissed me off, i just remember that she's the brand of main character that i generally find insufferable and that most of the plot hinged on her being cool, popular, non-conforming, blunt, courageous, daring, but very hesitant and indecisive in her personal endeavors, which i personally find taxing. i also find her color scheme butt ugly.

but what i like the least is how people call her a lesbian, because she's not a lesbian, she is bisexual. and i know that it's semantics and nitpicking and whatnot, and it's up to interpretation to begin with, but she is not a lesbian and i find it sad and hurtful that sku has the 'the lesbian show' reputation while being about straightfucking by about 80%, and utena is considered The anime lesbian while being a textbook bisexual. she spends half of the show pining after touga, than the other half of the show pining after akio (whom she fucks, but i'll touch on it later), and in the last 2 eps the writers were like oh shit this is a ✨✨✨✨ show we gotta show that she cares about anthy too. the relationship between utena and anthy has always been shoved into the background at best to make space for utena's throbbing heart business so the way she was so desperate to save anthy in the last episode after neglecting her the whole time reads as a little disingenuous and ass-pullish to me. now do not get me wrong, bisexuality is amazing and needs to have stories told about it, my problem is not with the narrative, my problem is with people painting her as a lesbian when she spends so much time pining after men. lesbians do NOT do that. we don't have silly crushes on men or get our hearts broken by them. does not happen. people cry day in and day out about the erasure of bisexuality yet when they see a bisexual girl they're quick to brand her as a lesbian, which in the end will hurt both groups of people. not to mention that sku does have an actual, unambiguous lesbian in it anyway in the face of juri.

THEN AGAIN i can't pin the blame on the fans wholly because what other alternative do people have, especially people who want to see themselves on screen? sku came out in 1997 but still has the reputation of The lesbian show not because it's so good and did such a great job but because there's no alternative - 24 years and they didn't produce anything worthwhile that would even rival it. i've talked about BL many times and how it's a homophobic, fetishistic genre, but GL is no different; except of course besides the fetishistic homophobia there's the misogyny element. GL tropes are different from BL tropes because the way men fetishize lesbianism and women fetishize gay male homosexuality is different, and the former hits too close home for me so i prefer to avoid it when i can. i fully believe that there's no mainstream representashun in non-genre anime _specifically_ because BL and GL got so big and are making so much bank.

and ikuhara fits the lesbian fetish bill by 100000000%, which is why i despise him as an individual. i often think that the incestuous pedophile akio is his self-insert, otherwise he'd get at least some punishment other than abandon. sku is a difficult series to me in general because while it has its good moments, its great moments, and it does tackle some subjects in a clever, ingenious, interesting way, at the end of the day it mostly reads as the masturbatory manifesto of a weird creep who has a hard-on for teenage lesbians, which he approaches in a perversely voyeuristic way. i don't like the fact that it's a show in which all of the cast is 12-15 years old while the main baddie is supposedly late 20s and ends up statutory raping the 14 years old heroine (after it's portrayed as courting - not even full-on grooming - and consensual) and two 15 years old boys, that's on top of raping his own sister on a regular basis. and he's given a sob story too, like i give a fuck. all in all it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and the fact that it's present in muh lesbian show even more so. at least they had the sense to not give the characters a child-like appearance, i guess.

back to utena though, at the end of the day she's a lonely, traumatized gender non-conforming kid who is taken advantage of, so i do mostly feel sorry for her, from an objective pov. but i don't like her. however anthy is the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, one of my favorite characters in everything i've ever watched, and utena is important to anthy and anthy loves her, so because of that i have no trouble tolerating her presence.