Bullza wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 8:38 pm
Again no idea what you're talking about. You could be throwing random words at me for all I know. What the hell is a non binary person? Isn't binary supposed to have something to do with math?
The other guy said it's an attraction regardless of gender. There's only two genders, male and female and bisexuals are attracted to both....
Either way it's not important, we're going off track.
Tien doesn't need to be given any kind of bizarre sexual preference. He doesn't need to be given any kind of sexual preference in the first place. Dragon Ball isn't some teen social drama. It's an action cartoon where people batter each other and it's worked wonders for it for 30+ years.
Nobody cares who Tien is or isn't attracted to. What people would actually want is for him to be powered up so he could serve a purpose towards the show.
Non-binary people do not identify as either of the two 'mainstream' genders. A non-binary person falls into a third gender position, like the Fa'afafine or the Hijra. I have a non-binary co-worker, for example. They use them/them/their's for their pronouns, just as I use she/her/her's for my pronouns. Our world has so many new things to learn every single day.
'Bizarre sexual preference' is so incredibly offensive to the LGBTQIA+ community. We are normal, everyday contributing members of society just as much as cishet folks. Calling us 'bizarre' dehumanizes us and leads to our persecution, raping and murder.
I understand that you deeply care about who Tenshinhan is attracted to and appreciate your willingness to contribute to this thread but it is simply not acceptable to disparage fellow users, fellow members of the labor force and fellow members of the human race in general. Please grow as a human being. The world is vast and our understanding of it ever-evolving.
Bullza wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 5:44 pm
I know the LGBT part but nowadays more and more things get tacked on to the end of it that it's become almost a parody.
Including queer, intersex and asexual folk and more into the short-hand acronym forces folks like yourself to ask questions and learn. It's a good thing.
Because it serves absolutely no purpose. Thankfully this isn't that kind of series and any relationships that are formed are usually only done so for the purpose of creating a new character in the form of a child like Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Pan etc for story purposes.
It serves the purpose of educating the uneducated and normalizing us, which helps save lives. What do you have against doing a small, simple thing?
ABED wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 5:22 pm
Is that really what's putting people off Supergirl?
Yes it is in spades. The show has become so obsessed with becoming "woke" (don't really know what that means either) and pandering to SJW's that it's putting people off from watching the show because it's all they are focused on now.
Again thankfully, that is something that anime in general doesn't do and hopefully never will because it will do it more harm than good.
This show has been popular for decades, they've got it good and people are happy enough with it. The last thing they need to do is start shoehorning in a pansexual Tien, a asexual Jiren and a intersex Hit (again what even are these things?) into a kids cartoon about fighting aliens because it will kill the show in no time flat
How is it pandering to SJWs and how does that make for a poor product? The character of Nia--a transgender woman such as myself--is the most positive display of a character like me I have ever seen in American media--media from the land from which I hail. I am upset that they made Nia an extraterrestrial (that reads as being apologetic to me) but I am otherwise so happy to see an actress and a character that shows us girls that we can pass and we can present the level of femininity we so often are desperate to attain.
Japanese media like animation are very queer. Whether in exploring the attraction to fictional characters that we 3D folk experience or displaying the types of queer love between characters that draw us to them. Caulifla and Kale are a wonderful queer couple, for example.
Yuuri on Ice had a queer romance between it's two main characters, too. It's also easy to read into Zamasu and Gokuu Black as a queer couple.
Like, buddy, do you not realize that you're coming off as a bigot?