@skelly85: EDIT: I've shortened this in response to criticism.
I want to be clear--I am not in any way trying to discriminate against non-binary people, and as I stated originally, I agree with the use of the yuri
tag here. I'm not arguing against that. Yes, I'm unfamiliar with Project Sekai, but it doesn't matter because in this case I have no issue with the idea of the "NB lesbian".
What I am saying is that, in general, I don't think it should be a case of what the author intends--as many people here seem to suggest--but the way it would seem to the average person. Because the whole point of tags is so that readers can search for what they want to read, not so that someone's identity can be validated. That's why it's necessary to have somewhat objective definitions of these terms. No, it's not always black and white; it's never going to be perfect, and there will always be edge cases, but the general understanding of yuri
is that it codes feminine, and that's what, in my opinion, really matters.
As I also said, I'm not going to tell anyone what their identity ought to be, even if certain identities seem rather paradoxical to me. The point is that, and I would think you'd agree, few people would be OK with calling this yuri
if the character didn't clearly code as feminine. As you know there are plenty of people who call themselves non-binary who nonetheless very much code male, and people probably wouldn't want that sort of thing listed as yuri
-- just like someone wouldn't consider someone like me, a regular man who is not a drag queen but who decided for some reason I wanted to use the pronouns she/he, to be in any way someone who could assume labels like "lesbian".
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