Fall of Anime 2011 - The Threadening

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Originally Posted by Liz

Everything about how the show framed "accepting Kanji" and "Kanji accepting himself" was done in a way to diminish and quite possibly erase his identity as a gay person. They weren't accepting "gay Kanji." They were accepting "Kanji who likes cute things." They were accepting "Kanji who fears rejection." They were accepting "Kanji who isn't 'manly.'" At no point in the episode was it ever portrayed as them accepting a gay person. Their reactions to homosexuality were violence, anger, and fear, from every single fucking one of them.

Lets be clear really quick: If the cast wasn't accepting Kanji as a homosexual in the seventh episode, if as you say they diminished the idea that he was homosexual and made it so the entirety of the thing was that they are accepting he's a straight guy who likes cute things... why is Yosuke being homophobic?

Either they are, or are not aware and accepting of the fact that Kanji is homosexual. They cannot both be ignorant of it and accepting only that he likes cute things but simultaneously display homophobic behavior. It doesn't make sense.

Yosuke doesn't say he's uncomfortable sleeping with Kanji because he likes cute things, he's uncomfortable sleeping in the same area as Kanji for a very explicit and specific reason. Which is that Yosuke believes Kanji is homosexual. But that the day leading up to the incident and the day after the incident he, Kanji, Narukami, Chie and Yukiko are all being very friendly sorta suggests that Yosuke doesn't actually hate Kanji at all.