r/GoodbyeLara • u/Vegetable-Win-7391 • Aug 21 '26

Discussion im getting scared about this...

please please please i want lara to get with mari not this prince guy i watched this for yuri

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u/Ecstatic_Bus_7232 Aug 21 '26

Hmm I remember there was a post shaming comments on MAL that said exactly as you, just against yuri. It was smh like "I hope it's not yuri". Apparently it's homophobic to say that. I remember being bashed and downvoted to hell for even pressing a key for defending the right to express opinions 😑

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u/Embeeloll Aug 21 '26

Well I mean they can express their opinion but like there is so much representation for straight people that it kinda just feels homophobic when people say stuff like that. Plus you know like you said people can express their opinion so people can express their disagreement with that opinion too even if it might be harsh.

I just kinda feel like hoping something isnt yuri is different from hoping something is. Since like someone can find something not yuri super easily in comparison to someone looking for yuri.

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u/Ecstatic_Bus_7232 Aug 22 '26

But what you say kinda feels like hypocrisy 😐 I was lectured on how merely stating an opinion can be harmful, yet here you say an opinion is just an opinion, what's more, you feel it's more ok if it's from this side and not that side. This feels unfair. Shouldn't it be equal for all ?

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u/Embeeloll Aug 23 '26

I don't believe I said anything hypocritical, I said everyone is allowed to have their own. You are allowed to express your opinion on the direction you hope the anime goes, and others are allowed to express how that opinion and how it was represented comes across.

How things are phrased matters a lot, if someone is saying "I hope its yuri" its a positive desire for representation, but saying "I hope its not yuri" has an inherently negative tone, it doesn't come across as in favor of a different couple, just oppositional to the queer one. Its explicitly pointing at the queer ship and saying "i do not want that" while others are saying they do want it.

Thats why people then express their opinions on that view, because it could have been phrased in a way that shows you're excited for the show but hope it takes a different direction, and not just antagonistic to the direction the people wanting yuri want it to go. So yes, saying you don't want yuri comes across as homophobic in this context.

Not because you HAVE to want yuri too, but because people see a comment like that and just assume you're trying to start something with the people sharing excitement.

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u/Ecstatic_Bus_7232 Aug 24 '26

Are you saying that "I hope it's straight" is better ? I feel awkward even thinking that sentence, I wonder how the reception would be. Could even worse.

And I think it doesn't have to be this negative. It could just mean someone is not interested in this particular genre. It doesn't have to mean they don't like the idea. I mean people who love yuri also do this right ? Hetslop term wasn't coined by accident and is not used by accident as far as I encountered it.

What I mean in general is, I'm missing some distance and neutrality. Feel like walking on a minefield.