because I wanted to bring this here anyways on some level...

[fencer_x]

So over on tumblr, I asked for thoughts on why anime!Shion was couched while everywhereelse!Shion is bed-with-Nezumied, and I thought I'd extend the conversation here :3

Was it just to avoid seeming 'too gay'? Can you think of a legit excuse for why Shion was on the couch and Nezumi in the bed? Conversely, was there any reason beyond warmth that they shared a bed in novel/manga canon?

Your thoughts, let me has them.

Comments

[stanza]

Yeah, because you know when 36% of your male population aged 16 to 19 reports having 'no interest' in sex, and 56% of the female demographic reports the same thing, gay panic is definitely the reasonable response. One would also think, in a country with a disappearing birthrate, ANYTHING that incites sexual activity of any sort would be productive.

I really don't understand the 'if you expose them to deviant lifestyles, they will become deviant where they otherwise would not have!' argument. It seems predicated on the idea that, you know, people grow and develop in some sort of strange cultural void where only 'deviant' behaviour penetrates their one-way bubble*? IDGI.

Plus you know that general relationship between BL and actual homosexuality in Japan and non-BL homoromantic texts/narratives in Japan and so on. Fraught with ridiculousness, to be totally flip about it.

* Though ahaha Shion is a terrible example of this basically coming to fruition. :| Sheltered life, pent up but not-like-to-be-acted-on desires... DEM GREY EYES = INSTANT DEVIANT. What is this show teaching our chilluns!!! (That grey eyes are sexy sexy. And screaming into storms is a good way to find your life partner. I know I've learned a thing.)

[spiralmaiden]

It just pisses me off that this ridiculousness almost literally has media-producers running fucking scared. I mean, so scared that they're like "BETTER STICK TO CHASTE KISSES AND CUDDLING ONLY WHILE CLOTHED AND NOT SHOWING ANYONE ACTUALLY SLEEPING IN THE SAME BED, BECAUSE OTHERWISE THE MAN WILL GET US."

HEY. HEY TOKYO GOVERNMENT. HEY. DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REPRESS THINGS!?

[stanza]

LOL now I am envisioning BL series with like. Two beds in the bedroom a la 50s American television. WHAT, SEXUAL DESIRE? NOOOOOOO THAT IS NOT. A THING. NO.

Things come out in exciting ways, where exciting means 'exactly the way fearful/phobic parties did not want to happen.'

[amielleon]

Sounds like time to loosen up about that xenophobia and start taking some immigrants! :B :B :B