#and yes of course women and queer ppl can perpetuate these stereotypes too

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A real quote from a person seeing that scene got me laughing and I blocked them but it was

That’s my point. Until one of them activly confirms that they’re in a relationship it can go either way. I’ve seen plenty of overly affectionate friendships in anime to know nothing bees have done is a hard ass confirm yet.

Like yes they’re not officially dating but way to miss the point of that scene. It’s no longer an overly affectionate friendship it’s a romantic relationship without the girlfriend labels. Crwby wouldn’t of done that if it was an just overly affectionate friendship they’d just have ren & nora not bring Blake and yang up. How can people look at nora saying practice what you preach about pyrrah’s feelings for Jaune and say yup it’s romantic but when nora says Blake and yang are more then friends it’s reduced to an overly affectionate friendship that needs one of them to say it? Like the writers are telling you that it’s romantic the same way they did for arko/ before they got into an official relationship.

i’m gonna say something maybe controversial here, but a lot of it is blatant lesbophobia and wlw bigotry.

like yes of course gesturing towards this het couple means they’ll get together and yeah, qrow smirking at clover is proof that they were into each other, but blake and yang having 8 seasons of slow burn and regular mentions/scenes of their romantic involvement from the end of v6 on is questionable

it comes down to the fact that people are so used to fetishizing queer women that they assume wlws HAVE to be physically intimate to prove they’re actually gay. if not, they could just be good friends right??? because at the end of the day, non wlws will always perpetuate the stereotype that wlw relationships are often just friendships with a little extra

it’s where the lesbian bed death myth comes from, it’s where the “lesbian couples are like sisters, really” stereotype comes from. if wlws are not performing their identities in a way that is deemed ENOUGH by non wlws, they’ll always face questions about their validity

blake and yang resting their foreheads against each other was romantic. nora saying they were more than friends was romantic. “i’m not gonna break my promise, i swear” was romantic. “is it... bad?” was romantic. there’s no two ways about it

fandoms need to stop holding wlws to a different standard than they do mlms or het couples. slow burns do not mean they might end up as friends and wlws deserve to be the focus of the romantic subplot too. stop acting like them just fizzling out and going back to being friends is a possibility, because it ISN’T. it’s just such clear wlwphobia at this point that i have to block and move on. wlws don’t owe anyone anything, and as a wlw myself, i care about my own mental health enough to not engage with ppl who will inevitably question my validity if i don’t perform exactly how they want me to

i’m so sorry this got long anon, you just sparked something in me with that quote you shared. i hope as you grow that blocklist you aren’t subjected to that shit anymore