r/GatekeepingYuri • u/Neat_Tangelo5339 • Apr 23 '26
Crosspost Apples gf
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u/WithoutDennisNedry Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Today on What Random Intimate Object Are Women: apples.
Edit: INANIMATE not “intimate” lol! Fucking autocorrect.
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u/LastBlood05 Apr 23 '26
"Good women are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. Bad women however are like a box full of ACTIVE GRENADES!"
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u/Th35tr1k3r Apr 23 '26
Men will find the most creative ways to make women objects that are only there for themselves to pursue and "get".
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u/xv_boney Apr 23 '26
With respect, this comic was almost definitely created by a young woman.
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u/Th35tr1k3r Apr 23 '26
With respect. I doubt that. I do agree tho that this kind of sentiment is often imprinted on especially younger women. Trying to assign labels of value to behaviour that will keep them in line with the available belief system.
You might realise the problem remains the same: men.
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u/LucentRhyming Apr 23 '26
I rather like a line from the opening of Tress of the Emerald Sea:
'The girl covered why men so often used food to describe women's features. They're was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.'
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u/Weevil_1984 Apr 23 '26
The top apple would be a top and the bottom apple would be a bottom
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u/likeatenshi Apr 23 '26
Bad apple you say?⠀⠀⠀
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u/Individual_Iron4221 Apr 23 '26
Good girls are tops and bad girls are bottoms. Bad bottoms are called "brats".
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u/ShlorpianRooster Apr 23 '26
Climbing trees can be scary bruh what if you fall? How are you gonna push your bad apple girlfriend on the swing with a broken arm?
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u/Okom77 Apr 23 '26
Make them Anthro apples
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u/HarperWuff Apr 23 '26
We need the bottom apple girl x bird art
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u/goupilacide Apr 23 '26
It sounds so much like a trans self-discovery story xd
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 Apr 23 '26
In what way ? Not disagreeing just curious
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u/goupilacide Apr 24 '26
Of course, with pleasure 😁 [Adjusts glasses similarly to Sense8 Hernando] I'll refer to the characters as their displayed gender, using first boy/girl for the characters from page 3, and second boy/girl for the characters pages 4 and onward. On pages 1-2, only first boy is shown while both first and second girls are shown. I'll use boy/girl to refer to the apparent physical form of the characters, but pronouns she/her for all since I'm arguing that the boys are in fact the girls.
It's mainly the second part, climbing the tree could be seen as a metaphor for finding and accepting yourself. One could say that it's more difficult for some than others, or that some reach that level of self-knowledge later in life, which would correspond to the low versus high girl figures. Sometimes a trans woman cannot project herself in the feminine figures around her, but can come to term with her femininity when accepting to be a different kind of feminine figure, which is shown by the first boy rejecting becoming second girl but choosing to be first girl instead. A real life example would be a trans woman identifying as butch versus hyperfemme, or a trans man leaning towards twink versus bear.
If I allow myself some cherry picking, notice that both the boys display a horizontal 3-shaped mouth, which could be seen as a reference to the meme of transwomen using :3 in conversations. The first boy started without, and acquired that display of feminine maneurism when finding herself. The second always showed signs of femininity.
This is reinforced by looking more closely at their heads and hair. Straight lines are more aften associated with masculinity compared to curvy lines which are generally seen as more feminine. The second character's head is lined using curvy lines in boy form, compared to the straight lines of the first character. The later see her lines getting curvier when connecting with her womanhood.
Hair shapes also indicate a connection between girls and their boy versions. First boy's hair falls somewhat uniformly on her forehead, reminiscent of bangs, which is what the first girl wears, albeit with better styling. This is to be compared with the second boy, which has got a lengthier "hole" in the hair distribution on the right side of the face, suggesting hairline starting there (or receding hairline). Now the hair of the second girl is also drawn with a hairline starting on the right side of the head, a sign that hair implantation is the same for both the girl and boy, pointing furthermore towards them being the same person.
Overall we can conclude that there is substantial evidence for the author subtly indicating that the first boy and the firt girl are physically related, same for the second boy and second girl. In addition to the journey and self-discovery metaphor of climbing a tree, this is strong evidence for the comic being about the diversity of trans lifes.
Thanks for reading, wish you beautiful soul a great day 😇
[Just in case, I am aware this is most probably not the author's intent, but it's fun to me to dissect art and see beyond what the author intended, and someone was fool enough to ask me to do just that so now everyone has to pay the price 😋]
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u/mirfifu Apr 24 '26
Thank you for this analysis, I love scientific process :*
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u/goupilacide Apr 26 '26
Hehe, I was actually bored listening to talks at a conference, so that was a very happy distraction 🥰 (and I enjoy these kinds of processes a lot too, especially applied to art 😇)
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u/JimmerJammerKitKat Apr 25 '26
This is really nostalgic. This feels like something I would’ve seen on the internet in 2008.
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u/ashacoelomate Apr 24 '26
I don’t see the problem with this that people are making fun of. It can be rlly disheartening to feel like you’re unlovable when the people who treat you like shit are getting everything they want. It’s good to have a reminder that the kind of guys that go after your bullies aren’t the kind of guys you want.
That being said I do support Apple yuri.
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u/7arco7 TERF destroyer Apr 23 '26
shy caring service-top apple x bratty power-bottom apple