the stars are yuri

idk man i think when a character explicitly tells us that she sees dating as a downgrade from the deeply significant partnership she already has with another character, that she doesn't find kissing or sex intrinsically appealing unless it's for her partner's pleasure, that she finds romance both boring and oppressive and compares the concept itself to a gravity well that assimilates the unsuspecting, that paying lip service to it for the benefit of people outside her relationship makes her feel as though she'd been stripped of her free will, that being forced into its orbit provokes the same helpless terror as being caught in the web of an eldritch entity that actively drives you mad with fear--we should believe her. i don't think we should see her say "when romance is the only context people have for mutually exclusive relationships that are valued above others, they will force everything you say and do into the context of romance regardless of your desires and intentions, and that scares and upsets me" and then do that to to her anyway

not hijacking at all!! this passage actually illustrates my point even better! like (gesturing emphatically at this whole bit) i was not exaggerating a single thing; sorawo herself expresses frustration abt other people failing to understand and even presuming to know more abt her feelings and her relationship than she does and yet!!!!!

Fuck butchfemme I dont care about or respect your yankee ass queer history

Okay listen I don't actually care if you call yourself a butch or femme. I don't actually view them as harmful most of the time. That being said if you uphold it as an essential pillar of lesbianism or you ask every lesbian you meet which one they are then I'm side-eyeing you H A R D as both a trans woman who has previously been essentially peer pressured by TME lesbians into being "butch" despite it being incredibly dysphoria-inducing, and someone who lives outside the impcore and has to see these USamericans gatekeeping and defining lesbianism with these terms

Also telling that if you criticize these labels as something that can be heteronormative when treated as the holy grail of lesbianism, TMA butches/femmes will usually understand but TME butches/femmes will try to rip your fucking throat out

fyi this also almost universally applies to people who use the term 'yuribait' and 'subtext yuri'

fyi this also almost universally applies to people who use the term 'yuribait' and 'subtext yuri'

Sex scenes in movies are just avenues for men to display their fetishes. Women, on the other hand, do not have fetishes. They are big happy and sexually normal. So sexually normal that sex disgusts them. In fact, being turned on? Inherently male trait. Being titillated? Only men experience titillation. Because being a woman means not experiencing dirty horrible sexual feelings like enjoyment at seeing a boob. Women are pure. And good. And virginal. They understand that sex is sinful and degrading. Surely this is a progressive stance.