[ SECRET POST #352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #352 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 250 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] too big, [ 1 ] hate letter.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, December 24th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[angathol.livejournal.com]

With regards to all this... I actually had the nerve to go to one of his Q&A sessions at a recent con (cosplaying as Fai, no less) and ask him, "Given that CLAMP has a lot of homosexual themes in their work, and given that there is mounting evidence that Fai isn't exactly straight in the manga, what's your take on his sexuality?" It put him on the spot and he kind of laughed nervously before launching into his theories about how he thinks Fai is straight. From what I can tell, he perceives homosexuality as dirty and he thinks that pairing straight characters with characters of the same gender is like destroying the integrity of those characters.

He claimed to have met CLAMP personally and that they said Fai was not gay with Kurogane (several friends of mine call bullshit on this because CLAMP rarely make time to talk to fans at cons, let alone voice actors). I asked, "Now, Tsubasa wasn't licensed two years ago when you and CLAMP were both at Anime Expo, and you don't read manga, so why would you ask about Tsubasa?" He retorted that it was Colleen Clinkenbeard who asked them the question. I still call bullshit nonetheless. I then persisted by saying that, in the manga universe, Fai and Kurogane are practically soulmates at this point, and he responded very rudely, with something along the lines of "I don't think they're SCREWING." I was pretty insulted by this, and said, "Homosexuality does not necessarily imply 'screwing.'" He said that western anime fandom adds a sexual element to a lot of pairings and therefore his reasoning was valid, and I said, "I find that offensive" (that he was implying that homosexuality always = sex). "I find that offensive too!" he said, and at this point he was either backtracking or misinterpreted what I said. RAGE. He then went on blabbering about how manga is different from anime, he doesn't make manga, blah blah blah, we have different opinions, his opinion is no more important than mine, blah blah. He then tried to save face by taking one more question so as "not to end the panel on a bad note." [/copypasta from my LJ]

tl;dr I'm sure he did think of me as some kind of militant yaoi fangirl, but I was out to prove my point that no matter how much evidence there is in favour of one of "his" characters being homosexual, he'll stick by his mantra of "STRAIGHT UNTIL PROVEN GAY."