I Have Such Mixed Feelings When It Comes To Wlw Media. On One Hand, Its Often Amazing And Makes Me Want

I have such mixed feelings when it comes to wlw media. On one hand, it’s often amazing and makes me want to believe in humanity and the power of love the way I did when I was a child.

On the other hand, 90% of the time some homophobic big-shot comes along and cuts it short and/or makes it so the creator has to wait til the last minute to make it canon so it doesn’t get cancelled early.

Or worse yet, wlws are used as a side character who are killed off as a plot device or their entire character is their sexuality and they have no personality otherwise.

I want the media and I will eat up every morsel, but I’ll hold back out of fear of it getting ripped away or ruined and I hate it.

In Phineas and Ferb, Candace is shown to have buildings skills similar to Phineas’, like building the dinosaur slide, the toaster, as well as helping them occasionally. Therefore, the only reason she isn’t having fun with them is because she wants to prove to their mom that she isn’t crazy. As so, if she ever did bust them or her mom believed her from the beginning Candace would’ve been a regular participant in her brothers’ plans. In this essay I will

Republicans will NEVER protect children/students. They only want submission.

I really do love how Revolutionary Girl Utena takes the trope of “prince” and turns it upside down.

At first the series leads the audience to believe that Utena wants to be a prince due to her love/admiration for the prince she met as a child. This suggests that being a prince is something given to you, like the ring, that to be a prince means a higher destiny for you chosen by someone else. And, through this, the reason Akio is no longer a prince is for the opposite reason, where the higher power (Anthy) stole his princeliness from him.

But as the series progresses, we learn that’s not the case at all. Utena becomes a prince not because someone else paved that road for her or told her to (if anything the opposite, everyone tells her she can’t be a prince). She becomes a prince because she chooses a noble path, because she wants to save the girl, because she wants to protect others (Anthy, Wakaba, Shiori in the Black Rose arc, etc).

Likewise, Akio didn’t stop being a prince because Anthy took the powers of Dios from him. He stopped being a prince when he left the noble path. When he began abusing his sister. When he began manipulating the people around him for his own personal gain.

That’s why he can never regain the power of Dios; the power of Dios rejected him the moment he stopped helping others. The moment he stopped saving others.

That’s why Utena is able to harness the power of Dios; because she chose the noble and good path, because almost everything she does is for the sake of someone else as well as herself. She helps others to make herself feel better, yes, but she would never hurt or leave someone else behind for her own benefit.

It’s for this reason Akio thinks that Utena didn’t cause a revolution; the only thing he views as revolutionary is him regaining the power of Dios. The audience sees that, even if people are forgetting her, Utena caused a revolution for most of the characters (Shiori and Jury, Saionji and Touga, Miki and Kozue, Nanami and Touga all beginning to repair their relationships, Anthy gaining self autonomy) but because she wasn’t the literal cause it’s not seen as “revolutionary”.

She didn’t fix things for the other characters. She inspired them to fix things for themselves.

If that’s not revolutionary, I don’t know what is.

Let me get this straight.

Anthy is in love with Utena who is in love with Anthy who is under the control of Akio who wants to control both of them. Saionji is homophobicly in love with Touga who is so misogynistic that he sleeps with men, namely Akio, multiple times (and is probably in love with Saionji) and they all want to control Anthy and/or Utena and mistake that need for control with love. Juri and Shiori are in love but Shiori has enough internalized homophobia for both of them. Wakaba is in love with Utena but in denial, Nanami’s internalized homophobia has convinced her she wants a man even though whenever a man pursues her she runs away. And all the while, save for the the beginning, Miki is just kinda there.

Did I miss anything?

Can I just say how hilarious I find Revolutionary Girl Utena with Juri. Everyone is freaking out because “how could a girl be a prince” and “Utena is so weird she refuses to wear the female uniform this has never happened before” when Juri…exists? Juri has been duelling and not wearing the girl’s uniform for who knows how long and is not all that subtle in her general disdain for men (save for Miki but she seems to view him as more of a little brother or a cute puppy than a guy) and no one comments on it.

Like idk if there’s a reason for this that I’m not aware of, (and obviously there’s already a ton of sexism and homophobia in Ohtori) but everyone making such a huge deal over Utena ignoring gender norms when Juri exists is somehow hilarious to me. Like Juri exists on a separate plane of existence that sexism doesn’t apply to her. Or maybe she traded it in for additional internalized homophobia for her and Shiori. Idk.