Man, you really hate the Japanese. Isn't there a place on Twitter or Tumblr for you to crawl into? If you ain't from the place don't go making blanket assumptions about what they express through their art because you've read one Baye McNeil or Jake Adelstein article. If an American wrote this same comic, you probably would have said nothing that you have and wrote it off as a reflection of a personal experience, or just simply a stylistic choice by the author. It might or might not be either, its simply art. Stop generalizing over an entire culture and country and being accusatory.

Says the person who assumes everything about me and says I "hate the Japanese". Ignoring entirely that I even brought up in my last post in this thread how people in the USA also have a hard time accepting homosexuality. The culture around homosexual acceptance in the USA is often face value at best, and not actual real genuine acceptance. So YES I would say something about other countries and problems about acceptance in them, BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE DONE SO.

You seem to ignore that Japan as a country is in general right-wing leaning and has a lot of value still placed on traditional gender roles. All because you wanted to make an account just to call me racist by saying I "hate the Japanese". Ignoring also that I've taken issue with again the whole world and how it accepts homosexuality, and also ignoring that I never said the entirety of Japan thinks one thing and one way. Instead I said how the general view and pressure of society is still not very accepting in the country this author is from. Gay marriage still isn't legal there, likely won't be legal in Japan even 5 years or more from now.

I'd also like to add how very recently a Japanese news paper recently published an article saying gay people are a major factor in the country's population decline.

Ok, I apologize for the "hate the Japanese" comment. I'm just getting tired of this website becoming nothing but over-generalized, un-informed accusations towards Japan over art made by specific people in a medium which is extremely varied and very dependent on the personal experiences of the creators, just like art anywhere. Is gay-marriage illegal in Japan, yes. Are there gay people in Japan, yes. Do those people sometimes face hardships due to their sexual preferences, yes. Does this mean every LGBT person in Japan has the same experience, or is oppressed, no. On this very website I have seen works by Japanese LGBT authors describing their personal experiences that range from depressing to positive, to everywhere in between.

I don't think anyone will argue with you about Japan being very traditional, but "right-wing" is a bit far-fetched. Conforming Japan to the spectrum of western or American politics is very close-minded and only leads to othering or deprecation of a foreign culture. Japan will be Japan, and while you may personally disagree with certain experiences here and there, in the end it is simply a group of human living in one place opposed to another, who have chosen to live a different way than you or me. In respecting art created by a different culture, I feel it is better to respect that there will be differences in how things, like sexual preferences, are interpreted, and that it is not within your right, as someone removed from that culture to critique it based on the parameters set within your own culture. By labeling Japan as "right-wing" and "not very accepting" all you are doing is generalizing an entire country with very inflammatory rhetoric which is skewed through a western political lens.

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Lesbian stories where characters need 10-100 years to figure out they are lesbians are frustrating to me. Realistic if you live in a shitty environment. But still annoying.

"A shitty environment", so you mean a society that focuses on traditional family values? Like the one the author of this comic is from?

There's a reason why it comes up often in stories, and writing about is likely a sort of catharsis for the author, and even a lot of their audience. Instead of being frustrated with stories like this, my frustration is placed on the fact that it's very realistic in many parts of the world, and a lot of those parts of the world won't be changing any time soon unfortunately.

"A shitty enviroment" as in no internet whatsoever so the characters can't search about homosexual online and then question about it for a long damn time because the writer said so.

Are you serious? You have to be joking right now. The internet and a community online can't just easily solve and dispel growing up and living in a society that enforces heteronormativity, and pushes for a traditional family in order to fit in and not stand out. The very same society that also enforces "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down". It has nothing to do with "because the writer said so". Alas though, I don't see how we can possibly see eye to eye here because I'm pretty sure we live on completely different planets.

Apologies if I sound frustrated. There's so many factors that go into figuring out sexuality, and so much pressure from numerous sources to be heterosexual, even in more accepting countries. There's a lot more to it than simply going online and figuring it out, at least for many.

Man, you really hate the Japanese. Isn't there a place on Twitter or Tumblr for you to crawl into? If you ain't from the place don't go making blanket assumptions about what they express through their art because you've read one Baye McNeil or Jake Adelstein article. If an American wrote this same comic, you probably would have said nothing that you have and wrote it off as a reflection of a personal experience, or just simply a stylistic choice by the author. It might or might not be either, its simply art. Stop generalizing over an entire culture and country and being accusatory.