^^^^ Errr ... I mean, they're both white. Sure, I guess the waistband has a floral print and the bra doesn't, but the bra at least is presumably coming off at some point. It all looks pretty cohesive to me, and it's getting the job done. Reimu doesn't seem to mind.

^^ Huh. That's ... interesting. It's like the Senran Kagura gag, but the presentation would lead you to think it takes itself more seriously.

^ Well it's just that the contrast between upper torso and midriff is so striking. So ... with the visor is she not blind? Or is this one of those really-pushing-suspension-of-disbelief Daredevil / Toph-from-Avatar kind of things?

Sorry, rationalizing is kinda my thing. Can't help it.

^ My sentiments exactly!

The stockings are hot.

^^ She's very cute, and a sweetie, and the fact that she grew up in America gives her kind of a cool factor to me (because for some reason I still seem to harbor some vestigal pride in my global embarrassment of a country).

Yay for cute anime girls.

OK, nobody does that two months' salary thing anymore (much less three?!?). Jewelry company scam.

But yeah, this is cute.

Ok I know nothing about ZZZ, but what is up with that outfit on the blonde? All of that armor up top and an exposed navel? I guess with the covered eyes and chest that's supposed to be her sex appeal, but it seems a bit of a ridiculous excuse to show skin.

Love Rina and Shioriko peeping in on the fellow first years.

Holy shit I just watched this tonight! Had never heard of it before until my wife found it on Netflix. Zoey is best girl.

Seems a bit more like "girls in straight porn/male fantasies" vs. "stereotypical 'butch' lesbians".

^^^ I see what you mean. It's as if the green is meant to be a sheen or shine off a partially reflective black surface.

^ Probably because Aeris is usually the more "femme" character, with the more serious personality. Who wouldn't vote Tifa more likely to get drunk in a pub? (Then again, Aeris probably doesn't have much alcohol tolerance built up, so maybe that's the joke here.)

^ Her Teddy is clearly black, so I don't think this is a blue dress / gold dress phenomenon.

These two are always cute together.

Did one of her wings break off?

^ Good improv, that does make it hotter.

^^ The leg lock is hot, but that's an awful lot of tsundere packed into a small space.

Ummm ... eeeewww... I'd burn those after being on a disgusting movie theater floor.

"Cream-puff-san, you're already this wet after just a kiss?"

^ For whom it matters, it's relatively tame futa. Glorified-strap-on caliber. Not the typical Lewdua-style penis-half-the-size-of-the-rest-of-your-body futa, which is where I draw the line.

This looks like some kind of weird boobaphobia shock therapy. Patchoulli looks like she regrets being recruited in the effort.

Awww. These two are always cute.

"Dress Code Strictly Enforced". Nice.

^ For what it's worth, I sincerely apologize. I realize this is a safe space, and I messed with that. Really, I regret it; I got angry and defensive. I don't have hate for you in my heart. I get intellectual about things and expect my rational tone will prevent anyone from getting offended; I know it's a problem of mine.

You're right, I said things I shouldn't have. I know how nasty TERF lesbians can be; I should've known better. I tend to draw a distinction between "discrimination" and identity/terminology policing, but I suppose in practice there's not much difference.

Anyway, think what you will of me, but I hope I didn't hurt or upset you too much.

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@eromancer Look man, perhaps in your confusion you're not realizing it, but the manner of writing you wrote your initial posts came off not as confusion but as with some authority. Perhaps you meant it, perhaps you didn't. I'm going to tell you that I was irked all the same. If you intend on engaging for the intent of clarification or further context, I would say you should ask a question rather than providing further statements.

Yeah, I'm starting to realize this. That's just the way I talk, but I guess I need to change it up in this context. I appreciate the constructive criticism.

Also as a side note yes, there are going to be people who embrace certain minority groups and exclude others with prejudice, even if they are also part of an endangered minority group themselves. It's an unfortunate fact of the world we live in.

Yes, that's true--you've got the TERFs and all that. But I wanted to emphasize that it isn't always mean-spirited--one person's inclusion is another person's appropriation. It's something I've noticed as I've wrestled with the frought notion of identity. As progressives we all want to be inclusive, but identities are exclusive by nature (based on mutual life experience), and some groups are very keen to guard them, in some cases understandably, and the terminology around them.

And yeah, I'm mostly an outside observer, because I have relatively few identities and I don't really care much to identify with others based on them. I certainly don't purport to speak for anyone; I only talk about what I observe.

^ No yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it like that (bad phrasing on my part). Of course if you care about characters you wouldn't laugh. I meant that it seems you prefer to care about characters, in which case it's hard to find humor in their misfortune, and it comes across as kind of dark.

I can definitely relate; I think you menioned Yuru Yuri and the way Akari is always getting treated like crap, which is a central joke of the show. Sometimes I can detach and laugh at it, and other times I feel sorry for her and want her to get a win. But I definitely find it easier to detach these days, at least for comedy.

^ Yeah, it doesn't really have the look and feel of AI, which emerged in late 2022.