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Eliza3 posted...

Lmao dear lord. I am part of the LGBT community and have always criticized it. Stop shilling for shitty aspects of a culture just because its Japanese.

Im not criticizing it because its Japanese. Im criticizing it because its homophobic. Is this the argument youre gonna stick with?

Your concept of what is or isn't acceptable is based on Western culture. You ignore Japanese opinions, Japanese LGBT issues, everything is seen through and evaluated based on Western ideas. That's the issue. You could learn about LGBT issues and Japan and address them or you could simply say they must conform to Western standards because those are the right ones, ignoring that those same standards perpetuated decades of LGBT erasure.

AlisLandale posted...

are you aware that the Americans censoring anything LGBT are not the same people as the people complaining that they dont properly represent LGBT in Japanese media?

Like, you HAVE to know that nobody in this topic was on the localization team that turned Sailor Uranus and Neptune into cousins.

you HAVE to know that the people complaining now were also complaining back then. >_>

That's the point. Everything is evaluated in a vacuum based on current Western standards. No one cares about what is or isn't acceptable in Japan. That's why this 180 occurred, because there was never a time when anyone actually cared about LGBT characters or representation in Japan. They only ever cared about how the West would perceive it. It's a very shortsighted and culture specific outlook. Rather than evaluating how Japanese represent LGBT, the issues with that, the issues the Japanese LGBT community faces or anything approaching nuance, it's just here is my current Western opinion and they should conform to it.

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