whatever42 posted:
I'm honestly a bit confused by how many people here act like the gyaru was in the wrong. Literally the worst thing she did was snatch away the otaku's drawings and give them back immediately. I mean sure, she called them creepy, but objectively, it is creepy to draw yuri manga about your classmates (or using their appearance). It's the otaku who is to blame for this outcome: she's the one who made a nasty, prejudiced call about the gyaru and shot her down when she was trying to establish a rapport.
She didn't give them back, the otaku took them back from her. She went off and got annoyed on her own, choosing to (at best) tease someone she didn't know, and then got angry when her target fought back. She clearly didn't care that the manga was of her, or that it was yuri. She was just saying whatever she thought would hurt the otaku the most. If one wishes to not be "in the wrong," they ought to at least make some effort to not inflame a situation first. Gyaru failed that metric.
When they have their later argument the otaku says, "That makes two of us." I don't think it's much of a stretch to read this as, "You picked on me because you thought you could." She's right, isn't she? Mere annoyance isn't enough to aggressively violate a classmate's personal space and possessions, one would surely be measuring the power gap before doing so.
Both parties here made some mistakes.