Listening to the Stars - Ch. 61 - Song Shucheng, You’re Impossible to Figure Out

[shinmera]

its almost like queer people tend to gravitate towards each other or something...

As a queer person I just gotta tell ya, this and that are different things.

 

[shinmera]

I'd argue there is a very big difference between "taking place in the real world" and having a realistic story, the latter of which is what I believe you are looking for. James Bond takes place in the real world, but I wouldn't exactly expect realism from it.

If this series was trying to be a realistic depiction of gay people, I'd be more inclined to agree with your statement.

I also agree that a lot of yuri stories have a trope where everyone is gay. In fact, TV tropes has a specific trope page for this. It's fine to say that you don't personally like that trope (even I feel like it can be little overused at times), but you shouldn't correlate it to the setting.

I didn't make a statement, all I said was how I feel about this trope. I didn't say that the story was bad, that people can't enjoy it, or anything to that effect. Just that for me personally, the trope takes me out of the story.

 

[AxiomDoggo]

Queer people are like stand users. They attract each other.

 

[Dingo777]

Gotta be real, I don't much like when in yuri stories that purport to be in some semblance taking place in the real world, somehow magically everyone ends up being gay.

Honestly it’s so they can have side-ships that don’t result in unrequited love. Yuri fans are here to see Yuri, so if you want more than one couple you either need to bend reality slightly to increase the concentration of lesbians in a given area, or add straight couples which often doesn’t go over well with the intended audience.

 

[itmealice]

As a queer person I just gotta tell ya, this and that are different things.

as another queer person, in my experience it would be weirder if <insert main characters> WERE the only gay ones in their group

 

[oubyn]

She ain't going to be kicked out of the yuri party anymore