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I hated the choice on a personal level, but storywise it was an insanley genius choice.

I saw it so you get to see it too.

Credits to A-sigh on Pixiv.

I'd want to try to translate it but I don't think I'm good enough, written Japanese is kinda hard

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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.

a.k.a. a chronological catalogue of me freaking tf out about the selfie account. as i do.

the initial alarm bell

the same alarm bell in different words

a normal post that veered off track and straight down the rabbit hole

get more sad about middle school ena NOW

darling dance line dist.

madonna-whore dichotomy

fic #1 - the logical conclusion...

ding dong, the witch is dead! (just to lighten the mood a bit)

an UNCALLED FOR 1koma (mizuki...)

compulsion, addiction

just open the reply section here

fic #2 - mizuena hurt/comfort

mind brand yap (related to fics)

ena vs. shizuku? plus communication via clothes

card analysis: why is that "the best angle?"

a maid dress??? clpl you can't do this to me

fic #3 - the immediate aftermath

what if her dad found out? (discussion)

what if a rumor spread about it?

a tale of two selfies

groomed by the system

So the thing about "you're making it weird" is that it's not actually a response to what someone is actually saying, but is simply (in my experience) an attempt to shut them down without listening and interacting at all...

A lot of the darker and more controversial interpretations of Ena's selfie account (jirai, grooming, etc) are rather open to interpretation, but it's hardly debatable that Ena's online popularity doesn't have at least some element of sexuality behind it. Which subsequently makes all the darker implications sound much more reasonable, right? Meaning "you're making it weird" isn't "you're making poor arguments" but rather "I don't want to think about the implications of what you're pointing out".

I think most of us fans (on any social media site) are here primarily to have fun, generally avoiding takes that make us uncomfortable, deflecting with statements like "you're making it weird" or some variant of "we should all get along". Anything that threatens the image of a character we like is treated as an insult; anything that threatens our worldview is seen with suspicion and often dismissed.