Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-79.169.60.148-20151201101703/@comment-26967758-20151201184906

Don't feel down Valyrie, I wasn't taking a shot at you. Like Anon said, it dated way back when already.

@Latest Anon, when I said established sexuality, I think I was talking in general terms. Say Sanji from One Piece for example. I was searching for a fanart of him and then I came across one with him and Zoro. Yeah, a yaoi fanart. Especially when we know of Sanji's craziness when it comes to women. That's what I meant by established sexuality. But by your logic, even characters who have always been in a straight relationship could somehow end up being homosexual in a sense, and that isn't right either to assume it.

Kaneki has only shown interest in women, the whole thing with Tsukiyama, he even said he sees him as a friend. See, someone commenting about how someone else is can't be taken as inferring to a certain feeling. It is typical to assume that a character is straight immediately after showing interests the opposite gender, but is that right? I'm not saying it's right at all.

You have to look at Japan as a whole. Their mentality as a Southeast Asian country is similar to the country that I'm living (which is also a Southeastern Asian country). Homosexual people are viewed in a generally negative light. Asians get it hard for being gay from their families, mainly because it's like some sort of family tradition since the son carries on the family name that it is preserved somehow. It's about cultural differences. People around this area of the word, the culture is so similar that we can just tell that they view homosexuality the same way our country views it (I'm pretty much part of the minority that doesn't mind who does what, just as long as they're good people). But that's also a problem because from where I'm from, people who become transgender or turn gay somehow mostly end up in the dirty line of business - they go into prostitution and stripping. That's a majority of them, so it's not really taken as offensive when people from this part of the world assume being homosexual is bad.

But don't take this up with me, I can't change how the country or how the Southeastern part of Asia views this topic. It's practically almost taboo to try and justify why people are gay. But that's also mostly the fault of the behavior of those who come out of the closet. They somehow make themselves look bad, in a sense, their tone, their way of speaking, their approach towards people as a whole just somewhat seem sarcastic. It almost makes me wonder sometimes if they're really gay or they just went into being a transgender because being in a third world country, especially a country that is mostly known sex tourism, it's probably the best way to earn a living for yourself by well... selling your body to tourists who come from the Western part of the world.