#utena defeats 'only men can be princes & only women can be princesses' in the first episode | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

xelidonia · 4 months ago

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I'm obsessed with this line from Touga. "It's wrong of me to flirt with you since you're my equal (for now)." It's so insidious. It's got the same vibes as those guys who claim that being attracted to a muscular women is gay

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu analysis #it's an odd comment because Touga actually admits that Utena is a prince/boy #in order to tell her “dude stop being such a prince or I won't date you / normal guys like me only want women who act like the Rose Bride”#because not even transphobes believe their own definitions of gender #like. by definition m/f isn't gay right?#however. when Ohtori and these guys call a m/f dynamic gay. what they mean is that the two partners are equals #that this is not a Prince controlling a Princess and that's bad #because it undermines THEIR doctrine that Prince controlling Princess is the only kind of relationship that should exist. that CAN exist #'true friendship does not exist in this world'#gay couples are not immune to this myth however some of its propaganda doesn't apply to them which lets them break out easier #utena defeats 'only men can be princes & only women can be princesses' in the first episode #but doesn't defeat 'there is love not defined by Prince and Princess' until the last

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