What do you say to accusation that if don't view Yuri on Ice as a great anime then you're a homophobe and/or a hypocrite for liking yuri shows like Utena and Flip Flappers but not one focusing on male relationships?
That it's a bad argument not worth engaging with, I guess. I don't like those other shows just because they're extremely gay, and I wasn't lukewarm on Yuri on Ice for that reason either. I was also a big fan of this year's Rakugo, and that show was in many ways about a man's awakening to his own ambiguous sexuality. Shows have multiple qualities.
That said, there are definitely interesting conversations to be had about what shows mean to us in a social sense in terms of critiquing them. But none of those conversations start with "if you don't love Yuri on Ice you're a homophobe."
That said, there are definitely interesting conversations to be had about what shows mean to us in a social sense in terms of critiquing them. But none of those conversations start with "if you don't love Yuri on Ice you're a homophobe."
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