Earlier today I seen someone refer to liking bl as sinning and I immediately got disgusted and thought of the perfect thing for people to read.
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NAGISA: Kou, I'mma be real with you, you've gotta know that what you do is like kind of gross, right?
KOU: Oh, I'm the gross one?
NAGISA: Yeah, like, you know. Fetishising gay men isn't actually supporting a homosexual relationship as something normal. If anything, it detracts from their efforts and you can go see it up all you want but you still refer to it as stuff like "sinning". Not to mention the fact that most Japanese media involving gay men is hypofetishized and marketed mostly to straight women with really tropey and innocent submissive and evil dominant, painting a picture of outed gay men as sexual deviants and closeted gay men are tempted by the forbidden fruit or something. Well, everything rings false when I say it because I'm depicted as a sexual deviant. So is Makoto.
MAKOTO: Huh?
NAGISA: Nothing, keep staring at the moon!
MAKOTO: Okay!
KOU: Huh? But I love gay guys!
NAGISA: See, you say stuff like "all gay guys are the same" and like every other gay guy, I don't even consider myself a gay person, but I'm dating another man. That's my main bitch right there.
REI: Hello.
NAGISA: Gay guys aren't all heart eyes cutesy ships. They have issues, relationship troubles, mental illness, and things that keep them from being happy. They're people, man, not a commodity for you to collect and flick your bean to.
This was NOT an easy thing to find so I hope you all take Nagisa's speech into consideration!
