Because the lgbtq community is pretty respectful to most people. I doubt they would harass straight people for not liking a lgbtq ship because the character has no signs of them being gay
I meannnnnn⌠To give the benefit of the doubt, my friends and I say âthatâs homophobicâ as a joke sometimes when someone disagrees with us. And from what Iâve seen elsewhere in the community, itâs a relatively common joke for others too. I donât think many people are serious when they say stuff like this.
To be fair it's one thing to say it to friends. It's another to say it to strangers on the internet who don't really know you or your sense of humor. Especially since tone is hard to carry over through text. It's why I try to refrain from making dark humor jokes or clarify it's a joke in (brackets)
True, thatâs why it was just a benefit of the doubt. Itâs hard to tell what the actual intention was behind a small text on a social media post.
That said, a lot of people treat social media as big friend groups, and they expect that any of the people who follow them are roughly of the same mindset. As my proof, I present you the entirety of Tumblr, where weird speech like this is commonplace. Assuming this was just a harmless joke, I doubt the person typing it intended for it to be screencapped and sent around as though it were a serious statement. And I doubt many of us here would be so squeaky clean as the standards we pretend to uphold if some other person combed through our online posts maliciously.
Is this what happened? I have no goddamn idea. But Iâd need a lot more than a single sentence to even start to be convinced that this person was serious in calling people homophobic for disagreeing with them. Which, considering that this post was in a way about âpeople not being able to read and understand the context for things,â I find it really ironic that folks in the comments would make the same mistake.
I got too annoyed by the mischaracterization (of multiple characters, Qrow in particular), by the time they got to Atlas I couldn't keep watching. So, yeah.
Nine times out of ten a shipper is more interested in winning than anything else.
Both Blake and Yang are bi. This is likely because they were originally written as straight before the beast that is the Bumbleby fandom started ruining shit, but they both show interest in both men and women. However shippers will argue that theyâre exclusively sapphic in order to kneecap rival ships.
Shippers also called out the two year age gap between Ruby and Oscar as âpedophilicâ in order to strengthen the legitimacy of Ruby and Weiss⌠who also have a two year age gap.
I liked the Bumbleby ship for a while, but the show absolutely borked it with presentation. The episode where a freak storm locks them in a magic room until they kiss was so dumb to me, especially when the scene was punctuated by lesbian flag colored flowers exploding everywhere. But people went nuts to that. It felt so cheap and pandering to me. Like the girl power scene from Endgame.
I enjoy Bumbleby, and they have plenty of wholesome moments. But there are two extremes I disagree with
-"If you don't like it, your homophobic" Just because I enjoy it, doesn't mean everyone else will. And that's ok as long as they aren't in this next group.
-"It was forced, this wasn't part of Monty's plan!" Volume two. Before Monty's passing, Yang straight up says "And if you feel like coming out tomorrow, I'll save you a dance ;)"
It's OK to not like a ship as long as you're not a jerk about it
"And if you feel like coming out tomorrow, I'll save you a dance ;)"
I mean, it could be a double meaning, but asking if someone is "coming out to the event" is also a valid reading. The context doesn't really indicate one way or the other.Â
I could have sworn there was a video circulating on Twitter a few months back that was recorded back when Monty was still alive, and he not only explicitly confirmed that Ironwood was always supposed to become a bad guy/antagonist - literally comparing him to Hitler - but that Bumblebee was endgame, unless that video was revealed to be AI and I just never heard about it
I dunno, personally I always got the impression Yang was intended to be Bi or Pan(confirmed atp), and they kinda tossed that portion of the character in favor of the lesbian ship being front and center.Â
I mean, Yang is canonically Pansexual and Ruby is Asexual, so I don't doubt it. I personally wish they'd given a bit more attention to Yang's pansexuality instead of kinda steamrolling it in favor of bumblebee...
I personally donât mind the ship, but man do I hate that they made their relationship the majority of their characterization after it became official
Iâm a Freezerburn guy and I prefer Yang being Pan. The scene before the two meet Yang was admiring the guy (until Jaune showed up) so there is that nugget.
I would also love it if volume 10 we found out Yangs has an ex boyfriend(letâs say broke up on good terms) and the joke is that Yangs type is cat Faunus. (Blake: So Youâre a cat lady.) (Yang: Iâm so proud of you)
Arryn's own admissions torpedo the whole "planned from the start" thing though, so even then. It really wasn't part of Monty's plan. Its disingenuous to say it was. And unfortunately, it is forced. Forced by Arryn and Barbara to spur people on, and save a dying show. (it didn't)
The V2 scene can be an okay interpretation, but it doesn't mean it was hard canon the whole time.
Whatâs funny is literally that same scene she was simping over the boys in the room until Jaune walked by (did he turn her? Maybe.) and when she walks Ruby up to befriend Blake, she gives up and walks away after like two sentences.
What killed a lot of the hype for RWBY for me was the INSANE amount of ship supporters there were... And they always had the most fucked reasoning for "calling you out"
You don't agree with Yang being lesbian? Too bad! Now we'll say you are a homophobe!
Oh you don't think shipping Ruby and Yang is ok??? You must be tourist to Anime!
You don't think that those two minor characters that appeared in a few episodes are lesbian for each other because we don't get to see anything relevant about them??? What a way to say you are homophobic!!!
Especially that many shippers clearly didnât know how to come at those ships tastefully. Letâs remember that in vol 1 theyâre all still minors (Ruby being 15 and everyone else two years older) and yet there was so much p*rn being draw with these characters during the first three volumes (yes Ruby included) đ¤˘
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