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It's a point I always feel strongly about bc (personal anecdote incoming) growing up one of my closest friends was the opposite gender to me and everyone would always ask us if we were dating because we went to and from school together (because my younger sibling is disabled and went to a different school so that was my parents' priority obvs). This was in primary mind you so it was really fun getting constant dating allegations from the ages of 8-11. It got less after we started high school bc we went to different schools but we still had Scouts together until 14 and would still get asked. Last time was when we were like 16 I think, by an old primary school classmate. It's like. Obviously heteronormativity but it sucks that it's always the women who are expect to like the guy too (between the two of us it was always the girl getting asked if they had a crush on the guy).

It works both ways of people eliminating attraction through making it incompatible but also the idea that if a woman and a man are friends there's no way that the woman specifically could be gay because she was friends with a man. The latter is a sentiment I've seen handed off to a few emunene and anhane shippers in the last month that have just popped up on my twitter feed. Like literally just "I headcanon <female wxs vbs character> as lesbian" "but she's friends with a guy/has covers with a guy/acted romantic roles in plays with a guy". Inherent expectation that in order for a woman to be friends with a man she has to experience attraction to him. Insane statement and so weird I've seen it happen more than once recently. Like why is it so unfathomable that a man and woman can be friends regardless or not if they can be attracted to each other. Why are we basing everything around a woman's attraction to men.

(Screenwriting degree mod taking over for one second: obviously heteronormativity is the answer. But not very fun fact. Literally so much storytelling and psychology theory is based around a heterosexual romantic relationship forming between the male and female protagonist. Like genuinely it's basically everything all the foundational stuff is built around a female love interest being the reward for the male protagonist's arc or vice versa. This is probably why fandoms have these problems outside of Society because it's literally an unconscious expectation in media. Writing degree mod out.)

Like it's just. Odd. That suddenly those headcanons are not okay when it's relating to the girls in mixed gender units. Like specifically the girls people never make as much fuss about the guys even if they could apply their arguments there too. Hand in hand misogyny lesbiphobia moment. I rarely see this sort of thing happening with the all girl units.

is the haruka oshi minori or is there anyone else who considers themself a haruka oshi

Rui being a Shizuku oshi is just a popular headcanon based on one of the stream commenters in Shizuku's untrained chasing the radiance card being called rui. Canonically they've had a few interactions and are acquainted. Ayaka (their manager) is a Shizuku oshi though!!

It's such a weird double standard. Like we're always calling people misogynistic over stuff that honestly? Doesn't warrant it half the time. But the second a character who is literally written with this as a part of his characterisation suddenly we can't fathom that this would be the case and we have to jump through hoops to prove that he would never and could never act this way. Is it bad if I say I noticed a lot of the people doing said mental gymnastics under my post specifically were prople who shipped Akito with one of the girls. I'm guessing some people took it as an attack on their ship? (Genuinely no offense to anyone who likes akito/an akito/kohane ships this is just an observation of like 5 twitter users).

It's always the vbs and wxs girls that get this weird treatment like I've seen multiple people on twt recently having to fight tooth and nail for their lesbian headcanons for those girls because people genuinely can't accept it and will say you're invalidating their friendships with men (because of course women can't be friends with men without attraction). Something something misogyny bleeds through the cracks of everyday interaction but sure let's keep throwing around baseless accusations of misogyny (there's other issues here too, obviously. Kinda unrelated to your point srry it just came to mind). It's always the vbs wxs girls getting into these problems not just over lesbian headcanons but just discourse over unit relationships and it's always the male characterss at the axis.

taps mic . uhm does anyone still fw this au

think of that scene where he defends her against their father. even then, while supposedly on her side, he agrees with shinei that she really is too emotional, and hence he should go easy on her. these two men are more or less on the same page.

that could be, and likely is, because of ena's personality and mental health issues, which akito has had to deal with the brunt of. but misogyny is still at play.

Firstly, Hiiragi does not care about Haruka as much as you assert him to be. Given how much time it needs to debut talents, Hiiragi was probably very busy with Re:Light while it seemed Haruka would never return to the stage in the unit story (After all, he is a man with a job, losing the main group he produces naturally means he has to pick up More Work or Be Fired). He specifically congratulates Haruka on her improved health/return to the stage in CMII and respects her efforts and hard work as an idol, but confidently states he won't overtaken if their goals overlap in RnS. I won't say the loss of ASRUN didnt sting for him, but since he is an adult in an already hyper competitive industry, he simply moves forward, vowing not to make the same mistakes again.

The thing specifically about Hiiragi is that like the MMJ girls, he too has his own opinions about how idols can deliver hope, and is Pursuing It. a point rise and strive specifically made is that he's not purposefully sabotaging mmj's job prospects, he's just really adamant on Re:light's potential in fulfilling the idea of an idol he has in his head, and thusly will go 200% in pursuing opportunities for them.

I think [pits R:L and MMJ aganist each other....engineering infighting] feels like a flawed interpretation of the events so far. Re:Light's first event was a collaborative stage with MMJ. While GGG places Yuu in a rival role, there is no way her nor Hiiragi would know about Shizuku's decision to audition, and Yuu is largely acting of her own accord in this event. While the two units participate in the LGPX, where they are competing against each other, R:L takes a position much like Hikarin where they are an friend and respected fellow player. (The only participants truly treated as a "rival" group is C*D, and even then its obviously not that cut and dry) Not to mention that the LGPX was made by Arisawa-san, who has her own Very Specific Ideas about what an idol is, and thus the events reflect that. The LGPX isnt about turning girls aganist each other, tearing other girls down while lifting themselves up, and more showcasing the strengths of each unit and what they want to convey as a group. There's not really a point where R:L are turned against MMJ, they've always been friends and admirers of each other, no matter the circumstance. And at no point is Hiiragi is specifically directing their activities for the sake of "getting back" at Haruka, he's specifically concerned with only the success of R:L and seeing his vision bear fruit.

In general, MMJ is about reflection, growth, reclamation of dreams, and the Ideal of who you want to become. Everything in their story serves that goal, including him. They could've easily made Hiiragi into a mustache-twirling schemer planning to destroy Haruka, but he's a much more realistic and grounded antagonist, someone who desires the same thing as MMJ (an idol who can give "hope") but presents a different set of Ideals and Goals about how to accomplish this. His quiet yet engaging philosophical debate about which Idol Ideal will prevail with Arisawa (not Haruka) is a plot point im greatly looking forward to how it will resolve itself.

This is not to say there is no element of misogyny in Hiiragi's character ( I think it would be more interesting to dissect the rumors around Re:Light and Arisawa and Hiiragi's dynamic in terms of a gender-oriented lens), but I feel like the current analysis bends Hiiragi's motives to the point of not resembling the original character anymore. You dont have to publish this ask, I just wanted to quietly give my own opinion.

idk man i just think it's bewildering like. what even

Bro it's insane how many replies I've had that say "well he never said he was annoyed at them because they're women" LIKE???? Do they think to be misogynistic you have to say outloud "I don't like women I think they're inferior to men"?? Like oh my god it doesn't take a genius to work out that maybe there's a reason he treats An as nothing more than Ken's daughter and is generally an asshole to Kohane (he calls her Chibi like come on it's obvious). Also the amount of comments saying "well he treated Toya the same when he said he didn't care" literally at no point in mainstory does Akito treat Toya the same as vivids, in fact he's harsher on Toya when Toya says he dgaf because it's like a personal betrayal to him. Also Toya ragebaited Akito into punching him on purpose whereas Akito's attitude towards vivids was of his own accord. He's literally just a teenage boy raised by a dad with issues and he mainly hangs out in a place with only one significant woman (an shiraishi) like ofc he acts like that in main story patriarchy sucks