#idk. ig it feels a little victim blamey to me?

[lesbianutena]

seeing people go on about how naive and foolish and blind and stupid utena is and i’m just sitting here like. she’s 14! i disagree strongly with the idea that utena is willfully or maliciously ignorant. like yes, while i think she does often fail to fully comprehend whats happening (especially in the last arc) she’s also finding herself in increasingly horrifying and new situations with no point of reference for how abnormal it all is?? she is doing her very best to make sense of things as a 14 year old child who has no parental figures or guardians, no friends who aren’t also somehow in on the manipulation happening to her, nowhere to go outside of ohtori. and that is on top of trying to navigate her experiences and identity as a queer and gnc person!!!! i feel like folks are wildly overestimating the comprehension the average closeted teenage lesbian has of systematic heteropatriarchiarcal cycles of abuse! she’s literally 14!!! save the scorn for the willfully ignorant for akio

#idk. ig it feels a little victim blamey to me? #not saying it Is that just that it Feels that way #i think the self-blame she experiences for failing to realize sooner is at least IMO internalized victim blaming #anthy and utena both blame themselves for shit that is fundamentally Not Their Faults #theyre each like wow im a horrible person for getting caught up in this cycle of violence and dragging this person i care for down with me #when like #idk yall i think the problem deserving of scorn is the teenager fight club run by a serial r*pist 💀 #THIS IS just my opinion i would love to know other ppls perspectives #this isnt vagueing anyone i just see that sorta take a lot and im like #idk! its not a Wrong interpretation or anything but it just rubs me the wrong way #idk maybe i just see a Lot of my younger self in utena akhejshsjs #& ive been thru this sort of situation where bad shit is happening to u and u dont know its bad because you have zero frame of reference #utena tenjou #rgu meta #rgu spoilers #rgu #revolutionary girl utena