ExquisiteDefect said:I'm MUCH more into this episode than I was the first one. So much surprised me.
cereal said: Its almost like their emplying all girls who go to girls schools swing that way.
I agree and this kind of bothers me about the series. I hope some of the characters are straight and I'd like to see a male or two other than just the brother. lol.
Seems like I'll have to give another tl;dr rant of an explanation here.
They are not implying that all girls who go to girls' schools swing that way at all. In fact, let us use our fingers to count.
How many girls swing "that way" as of episode two?
1. Fumi
2. Kyouko
3. Yasuko...?
Hoo boy, three out of like five hundred girls, I'm sure.
The series is focussed on the life of a lesbian school girl. So it'd make sense that most of the people she'd form important bonds with are people like herself or people who are sympathetic to that.
Just because the girls seem extra friendly with one another is not an implication of sexuality. It's admiration, it's sisterhood, it's friendliness. I don't know why when people see two women together in anime, people assume something about them.
It's a matter of culture. In Japan, in those girls' schools, it's not uncommon for girls to be that friendly with one another or to even look like they have crushes on other girls. They call that Class S relationships, in which it isn't sexual but it's romantic. You can be romantic with someone and not sexually or emotionally desire them or want them to be your girlfriend.
In the West, for some reason, we crudely like to ignore the varying feelings people have for one another. So if a boy likes to hold hands with another one of his guy friends because he feels comfortable or he loves him, we immediately call them fags and proceed to terrorise them. Or we assume they're in a relationship. Which is why guys can't hold one another's hands EVER even if they're just friends.
With girls, you see that there is an ease and comfort amongst them.
Most of you who are commenting on how gay everything seems to be have all turned out to be:
1. guys
2. young
3. people who don't know any homosexuals in real life
4. people who have never went to/do not know a thing about girls' schools outside of anime and possibly pornography
So as someone who has gone to one, let me make it clear: that is quite normal. In fact, we got a lot of people assuming the girls are lesbians from girls' schools simply because we hang off of one another, or hug one another openly and give each other chocolates for Valentine's Day. It's very normal to see the girls screaming and fangirling over the sporty girls during practice.
And as for those who engaged in same-sex relationships, they tended to gravitate to one another. Most of my friends were bisexuals, for example, and I noticed that every other new friend we made turned out to be bisexual or experimented with girls at some point. It's a matter of attraction, and people with similar sexual orientations tend to attract those like themselves. Sort of like how all the promiscuous girls tend to be friends with other promiscuous girls--they like sex and they gravitated to one another because they had that in common.
It's not like they said, "Let's look for all bisexuals!" or "Let's form a Promiscuous Girl Club!" No. Like in nature, how animals tend to herd together, in society, people unconsciously group together as well.
So Fumi meeting Yasuko and by extension Kyouko who are also girls who like other girls is not contrived. It is in fact so normal, I couldn't even be bothered with paying it any attention. Until you folks brought it up as a "problem".
ExquisiteDefect said: I hope some of the characters are straight and I'd like to see a male or two other than just the brother. lol.
I don't understand your logic. Would you have watched an anime like Clannad or Toradora and say, "Man, I wish some of the characters were gay." You wouldn't. Why do that here? |