accidently found the funniest take ever which is "those wlw scenes aren't wlw because they have symbolism"
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Is this where tumblr folks are getting that “it’s trash yuri because they don’t kiss” ?
I feel like 'RGU is not yuri' is probably just the natural end point of a media culture where, thanks to the way media are marketed, genre is no longer 'an established literary tradition with set forms and styles that follow particular social conventions'... instead genre is primarily 'the tag I use to find media I like'.
So when someone comes across something they're not a big fan of, their instinct is to say 'this isn't *genre*' because it's frustrating to them personally that it is grouped with other media they do like.
The nuance of 'genre' is always going to lose out to the pragmatism of 'I need to be able to find media I like and the only tools the corporations have given me are a string of bizzare algorithm variables like swoonworthy, romance anime, and based on manga.'
Add in the instinct people seem to have to gatekeep and stereotype media consumption in order to create social in groups and out groups, and you basically have a media culture where people find it totally normal to run purity tests on their Netflix categories.
the other night i told my friends about this tweet—
ALT—and one of them thought it meant "the oppenheimer pr team should make an oppenheimer house down the street from the barbie house" but my other friend thought it meant "the oppenheimer pr team should nuke the barbie house"
so, which is correct/which did you first think:
the oppenheimer pr team should make an oppenheimer house down the street
the oppenheimer pr team should fucking nuke the barbie house
