No, Yuri is Not Queer

>No, Yuri is Not Queer
>I have a second—more personal—interpretation of the term Yuri on Okazu, my blog:
>Yuri is lesbian content without lesbian identity.
>By this definition, if a series recognizes itself as being about queer issues, it is a series about sexual, gender, and romantic minorities, something I put into the “LGBTQ” category on Okazu. Very little of the massive amounts of Yuri being published uses the word—or the concept—of “lesbian.”
>It’s still rare to encounter a character who says even in an internal monologue that they, when they are looking for a sexual or romantic partner, look at their own gender—which makes Bloom Into You’s Saeki Sayaka uncommon. (That series also features a stable adult relationship as role model and confidant for Sayaka, which makes the series highly unique in a positive way for young queer readers.)
>Coming-out narratives, which are very common in western literature, are rare in Japanese literature. Instead, tropes of lesbian behavior are modeled on the heteronormative Takarazuka Revue with its strong butch/femme dynamic, or removed from the real world completely by being set in fantasy scenarios at impossibly rich girl’s schools, such as in Maria Watches Over Us (anime from RightStuf), Strawberry Panic! (anime from Media Blasters; manga from Seven Seas) or, more recently, Revue Starlight (anime from Sentai).
>Even with the current trend in Japan of Yuri anthologies focusing on adults, stories rarely acknowledge the social and political facts of homophobia, family pressure, employment and housing instability, medical care, and other real world issues of being queer, much less address them directly.
>So in that sense: no, Yuri is not at all queer. You might call it “queer-adjacent.”

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I bet this was written by (((Erica Friedman))) from the image alone, so I'm not going to even bother reading that garbage

fuck off

>Erica Friedman
Yikes!

No one cares faggot. Fuck off with your westerner rationalisations.

You dumb shitter

kys

Shitty OP.
It's an article where the author takes both positions to look at both arguments for and against yuri being queer. OP's quote is from her taking the second position, where before in the article she took the first position. She caps off what a few mangaka thought on the question and just leaves it up to the reader in the end.

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