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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)This. This right here. Are you even fucking reading?
If Kanaya is a lesbian(/girl-fetishist (which is a really GROSS way to word it on Andrew's behalf)), then all of her romantic pursuits (barring auspisticeship, which would of course potentially entail acting on behalf of one male at the risk of being a poor auspistice otherwise) are limited to women. And it is pretty problematic to insinuate otherwise. Even ignoring the romantic factor, it's pretty gross of people to deny important relationships between women and supplant them with male relationships. Karkat and Kanaya were NEVER canonically suggested to be moirails. Yes, Karkat acts like marginally less of a dick to her than anyone else. No, that doesn't necessarily mean shit. Vriska is Kanaya's primary priority. Not a male.
You can either accept the fact that Kanaya's interests and needs will always lie with women, or continue to be a male-privileging and lesbophobic person. Your call.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)It is PLATONIC. Which, by your logic, seems to mean that lesbian and lesbian-leaning women should not be allowed to be what is basically extremely close friends (and only friends) with men.
When it comes to Matespritship and Kismesissitude, yes Kanaya will in all probability only consider females. But in the platonic areas she is perfectly capable of having males mixed in there.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)And frankly, as a queer woman myself, I wouldn't encourage close friendship with males. I and all the queer women (and many of the straight women) I know have only been abused by them.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)I was agreeing with everything you said up until this point. This queer woman with a lot of perfectly nice (straight) guy friends here would like to point out that data is not the plural of anecdote.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)Guess what. I'm a lesbian. My best friend is a male. He helps me pick out the best outfits. He's sweet, kind, gentle with children, and he respects me and my lifestyle.
The bad ones are a case of a minority setting a bad rap for the majority. I'm sorry you've had bad experiences, but you need to get over them, and get over yourself.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)I'm going to ignore that second half because, while unfortunate and awful, frankly has nothing to do with the characters of this comic..
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)okay.
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What is this secret idek
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A reasonable human translation would be the concept of a soul mate, but in a more platonic sense, and with a more specific social purpose.
The reason Moiralligience is considered a romance is because it has a social purpose that is equally as important as reproduction in troll culture, not because it is meant to be a direct analogue to human romantic attraction. Considering homo and heterosexuality are not concepts that exist in troll culture to differentiate between same and opposite gender pairings, there's no reason to assume that Kanaya's physical attraction to women would also dominate her non-sexual relationships. Kanaya being Vriska's moirail doesn't indicate that she can only experience pale attraction to women; the only reason she was Vriska's moirail was because she was flushed and taking what she could get. We've never seen Kanaya in a true moiralligience, but we have seen her form close friendships with both male and female characters.
Also, I am very sorry that you have been abused and respect and understand the right of any woman to write men off completely, but I'm not really sure real world misogyny can be used to make inferences about troll culture since they appear for all intents and purposes to have gender equality (despite a few glaring dialogue over-sights on Hussie's part :/). Kanaya's experience as a queer troll isn't really comparable, which I suppose is problematic in some respects but that's probably a debate for another time.
What I'm trying to say is: if you don't like seeing her in any kind of close relationship with a male character, that's fine, but your interpretation is subjective.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)Just because you're a misandristic* bigot who calls herself "queer" because she's afraid of men doesn't mean AH should cater to you. How can you even read it when the MC is male?
*Misandry may not exist on a societal level comparable to misogyny, but that doesn't give you a pass for hating or avoiding people based on inborn characteristics. A bigot is a bigot.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)Grow up. Hating all men becasue some of them were abusive is not a valid reason. It might not be oppressive, but it's kind of like hating anyone with red hair because in your experience they're more cruel. It's fucking stupid and immature.
Also; I'm a lesbian with almost exlusively straight male friends. Most of the lesbians that I know? They also have deep, meaningful friendships with men. And, yes, I was abused. I'm just not a hatefull, ignorant crybaby like you.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-05 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)it's all cool if you hate men, and i'm genuinely sorry that you were badly treated by them
but don't shove your bigotry down everyone's throat kthnx
and where the fuck do you live? do you speak for all the queer women? grow up and accept the that while your feelings against men are perfectly understandable, they're neither right nor a standard. grow the fuck up.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-06 12:34 am (UTC)(link)Don't act like we have to choose between shipping Kanaya<>Vriska or being a mindless slave of the patriarchy. Don't act like a person can't ship a character with multiple characters, both female and male, in all the possible quadrants. Basically, don't fucking assume you know me just because I ship this or that because HEY GUESS WHAT. YOU DON'T.
I'll be sitting over here, being my lesbian self and shipping Kanaya/Vriska, Kanaya/Rose, Terezi/Nepeta, Aradia/Vriska, AND YES, KANAYA/KARKAT. It's allowed, I fucking promise.
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The word is useless in a bisexual culture where gender specifics aren't necessary for reporduction.
Not to mention romantic feelings are based on emotions we do not associate with them.
Yes, she's a lesbian in the sense that her desire for sexual relationships seen thus far seem to be limited to females. But that's only relevant to humans.
Me, I ship Karkat <> Kanaya and just shrug at the label being pointless.