#half of the dumb jock herbo shit is just utena being willfully ignorant in order to keep reinforcing her belief in princehood

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back on my utena bullshit and getting annoyed by ppl reducing her to just a herbo jock like. please remove your horny hat for a sec and think more about the themes of the show outside of lesbianism

#half of the dumb jock herbo shit is just utena being willfully ignorant in order to keep reinforcing her belief in princehood #people are able to digest how miki places anthy on a pure woman who needs to be saved pedestal #and utena does the same thing #granted she does it with more nuance #because utena is both a prince and a girl she can interact with anthy both as a prince and as a fellow girl #utena friendzones anthy for like the entire show #because princes and princesses are a romantic dynamic #that utena is fine indulging in in a childish way #but not seriously as an adult #just like nanami towards touga #a lot of the time in japan lesbophobia manifests in a really paternalistic way where like #its considered something girls grow out of #and utena does this with all her middle school friends #shell eat wakabas lunches and be her prince in the context of harmless girlhood #but never calls herself anthy's fiancee #and when she's in a relationship with akio she acts and dresses a lot more feminine #in the ending credits she is dressed like a rose bride when in the arms of dios #but yea utena isnt just a dumb lesbian #shes one part dense and 4 parts willfully ignorant because of her relationship with gender sexuality adolescence and princehood #utena