very weird to frame your abuse apologia as being aware that the writers intended to illustrate a mutually harmful dynamic and not an abusive one. when the writers in question also wrote the line 'once you put it out there, they [the audience] decide what it is' because nothing you ever create has any innate definition. when the writers in question decided to racebend major characters and then showcase them being harmed by white or nonblack characters in a repeatedly racialized pattern when they Did Not Have To Do That and then genuinely or disingenuously decide to dialogue about their directly or indirectly illustrated racialized dynamic of intimate partner violence within and outside the narrative. like to be quite honest it does not matter what they intended because this is what they made and this is how it Looks to a notably large amount of people. who just happen to be interpreting it wrong? according to what metric? the very metric they say Doesn't Work in their own fictional creation? ok
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Dunno if i should preface that i am a cis female so whatever i say i guess doesnt have a lot of weight but whatever, this is my rant
Saw someone on twitter getting mad at Adult Rin and Saki designs sayin that the most “GNC” girls are now “conforming” to being more feminine as they grow up. My argument is that having short hair and being into sports doesn’t mean theyre throwing away their femininity. If anything Rin is Super Feminine. She’s sensitive to romantic feelings (pure hearted maiden), very nurturing (to her younger siblings and Nozomi), finds no problem working at her family’s flower store and goes into designing jewelry as her career.
It’s not like Rin is adverse to wearing skirts, her main outfit in GoGo is a skirt. Same with Saki, the short hair sporty girl, her main casual outfit contains a skirt, while Mai wears pants.
For me, I saw these girls as, well, girls, who just enjoy different things, and it wasn’t like they were challenging their femininity or anything.
Akira is a different bag of worms. There’s no explanation why she dresses so neutrally, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t remember if she ever vehemently identifies herself or if she ever disliked being mistaken for a boy, but I mainly remember her asking why she was put in the boy’s kimono while they were at the tea ceremony. Maybe it was just that she was being left out/treated different that she complained, but I saw it that she wasn’t throwing away her femininity either. Maybe she's more gender fluid, maybe she just wants to wear what she wants.
Her timeskip look has her have a little ponytail. Growing your hair out doesn't make your more feminine, guys have long hair too.
ANYWAY, Gender is A Mistake and should be eradicated.
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