She Likes Homos, Not Me - Vol. 2 Ch. 7

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I tried this when I was around that age because I thought there was no way out of an abusive home. Not a window though. So many years later I'm so happy the ambulance made it in time cause I'm happily married and I love my cats.
I still have problems but sometimes you just need a break. Not to give up. His friend had a terminal disease so I think the circumstances were a bit different. (Not saying I condone it but we don't know what his health was like)
I really hope he makes it and finds a healthier relationship. Cause being with a married old man....
 
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I am so fucking sorry for Jun, so much pain inside the poor kid, he just wants to live and be accepted. I will never understand the struggle of LGBTQ+ people since I am a hetero myself, but I have so many friends that can't come out and be themselves, it just hurts to see a character like this, quite accurately depicted in fiction.
 
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Did he take suicide because of his classmates or is it because he's depressed??? I guess its really true that hell is other people. Why care what they say to you if it has nothing to do with them and why do they insist to hurt/bully someone whose a homo even though it also has nothing to do with them. They are so prejudice know its a sin when it comes to religion (Catholic) but why go that far they are making more sin by getting affected to something mostly the one who was mostly affected.
 
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I read to this chap on one sitting, and good lord I wasn't expecting that.

Until about halfway though I was thinking "oh is this finally some Heteroromantic Homosexual representation" (due to the "hard/soft" contrast, I believed 'soft' love to be romantic love, but ... no? just platonic? and 'hard' to be of the sexual kind) but nah it's just regular homosexuality, but, jeebus did it hit me hard. I don't get why the title was focused on the girl when it was more... societal? Well, I suppose she could be an extension of those around her, who have their generalized opinions on minorities or those not "normal" by the standards of society and imprint their opinions onto others by putting them in labels. Which, some people allow those labels to become their only or defining identity which is another thing of itself.

But I still don't get why we hit the 'she likes me, not homos' revelation and then immediately after we get "I like homos after all and you're one" which I feel like... is a backtrack tbh. The nuance here is that Jun was supposed to find acceptance with someone, even though he betrayed her so badly, and it wasn't because of what his sexual preference was but just him as a human being. But I surmise it had to be done for the sake of the ending. TBH it was a tad overdramatic, or overblown with the coincidences, like Makoto's son, and the whole Mr. Fahrenheit thing (could that be a reference to Fahrenheit 451? It seems anyone in this book who is out of the norm suffers greatly and, in 3 cases, literally DIES. There's no greater form of censorship.) because... wow I mean it is a good example to show how faceless people must be to avoid being targeted or attacked, but for such a short story the cast could've been a bit more condensed. The author truly gave me some kind of hope for a good ending a few times but... yikes. RIP, my man.

Overall, I liked it so far. I still kinda swiped over the *coughcough* parts but since I enjoy this psychological type of manga, it was a solid read.

This aint the end right though? He's probably gonna survive considering Vol 3 is a thing. I don't actually know.
 
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Errr, so in what floor is Jun class? I hope it's like the third or second and there's a lot of bushes down. At least he will just get some bone fracture :(
 
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Man, thought its gonna be a better ending for the chapter since his girlfriend was being understanding, maybe he got some of the alpha homo courage and get back at the dude egging him. But an hero we go.
 
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>Ono is not homophobic

I disagree. If he wasn't homophobic he would've been on his ass for cheating, rather than being gay.

It's like that old proverb. A bigot only cares about what you are, not what you do.
 
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I’m crying 😭😭😭💔
Thank you sooo much for translating 🙏🏻
 
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I can see where you're coming from, but remember Ch.6. Jun used the homophobic stuff towards him which hurt his pride. He redirected that towards Jun when he realized he actually was a homosexual. Doesnt mean he's necessarily homophobic, nor was he in the right because he's clearly ignorant as a teenager. Instead, it just means he is using the one thing that hurt him and times it by 10x towards Jun. He didnt know when to quit it and you could see the realization hit him in his eyes before the peak.
 
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>entire chapter of targeted homophobic bullying
>"Ono is not homophobic"
Press X to doubt

Even if you're only 50% homophobic, or 30%, or 10%, or 1%...you're still homophobic. Even if you're upset at a gay person for other reasons, bullying them using their sexuality is a homophobic act... Teenagers can be immature, horrible little shits and homophobic at the same time, too.

I think expecting a kumbaya attitude from readers towards the character who just bullied a suicidal gay boy is unrealistic at best. 🥴
 
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It literally does mean he's homphobic, though. Using homophobia to hurt someone means you are a homophobe. Someone who is not a homophobe would not intentionally do homophobic things to hurt a homosexual. Especially to the extent that Ono goes with the bullying.

It's the equivalent of having someone of another race do you wrong and then screaming racial slurs at them at the top of your lungs. If you do that you clearly have a racism problem outside of what this particular person did to you.
 
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@EvelynIsGone I will stand down on defending not using that label for Ono then. I was just trying to get at that Ono simply uses the fire given to him. Its seen throughout the chapters when he is present. He observes, then he reacts in kind. However when he is attacked, he responds back even more harshly. I just hope people dont paint him as the "villian" in other words.

But also based on your logic, Jun himself is homophobic. And personally, if we are to use that label I suppose that is one way to describe him since he hates himself and wants to reject his sexuality constantly. He also uses it aganist others (Ch.1 and Ch.5 to Miura; Ch.6 to Ono) because he knows it's a terrible thing and probably his best weapon in distancing himself from others getting too close.
 
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@yabaibunni I don't mean to butt into the conversation but it seems to me that you're misunderstanding some things here

1) ono is utilizing homophobic rhetoric in order to hurt jun. it doesn't matter if he's a villain or not or if he was hurt and this is how he's lashing out, Ono is ostracizing and attacking Jun using homophobia. he's able to pit the entire class against jun by spreading rumors about jun's sexuality and then using their ignorance//naivete//prejudice to fuel the fire. Ono knows that the remarks he's saying hurt, he knows he's being a nasty person (as you can tell with the last panel how he has regret and hesitance on his face) and the way he chooses to hurt Jun is through homophobic remarks. You can say he's homophobic here, because instead of creating animosity towards jun for cheating on his girlfriend, or trampling on the feelings of his best friend, or being an all around shitty person to the people around him, Ono is shown to be attacking Jun for his sexuality, attacking Jun for his sexual experiences (remember in chapter one Ono received praise and power from sharing stories of his sexual encounters with his girlfriend, he knows that the sexual status of the boys in the class will affect their social power because he was directly benefited from it). Ono has been aggressive towards Jun for a majority of the series (bc of the situation with miura), and he lets go of that aggression and justifies it through homophobia (smth like "jun is a bad person because he cheated on his girlfriend with a MAN" not "Jun is a bad person because he cheated on his girlfriend")

2) Jun absolutely can be homophobic. Internalized homophobia is a thing. By the looks of it, Jun does not have any healthy relationships with other queer people. his best friend (mr. farhenite) is an HIV/AIDS recipient/carrier. And jun met him, and established a relationship with him, through that (knowing he has a stigmatized terminal illness). Jun doesn't have an allies, he's navigating through this world blind. From his environment and all his friends it's safe to assume that he lived in a pretty isolated and openly homophobic/ignorant world. He doesn't have an LGBT support system. He doesn't have anyone too confide in that accepts him as an individual first. You can have a future as a Gay person, you can have a family you can have kids you can blah blah blah, and I know that because I was able to see it through LGBT role models and elders. Jun doesn't have those. He is struggling because he doesn't have anyone that can give him assurance of the future as a positive role model (he really only has the guy dying of AIDS, the dude he's basically having an affair with, and the lesbian bar owner who is fine with jun and makoto's relationship despite a whole plethora of things that shouldn't make it fine).

3) and he chooses to distance himself from others by feeding into their prejudice, because he's scared more than anything. if he's vulnerable and nice but still gets rejected he'd feel even more awful. like he's doing everything right but everyone still hates him. Jun thinks that if he plays into their ignorance and acts the way they expect a "nasty homo" to act then they're justified in cutting ties with him. He doesn't want to be rejected, but he knows rejection will happen, so why not be a bitch. I don't think it's the best way to do things, in fact I think it just is stupid he reacts like that, but also he's a teenager and his best friend/confidant committed suicide. He's not in the right state of mind. I think he's using his sexuality to confront others because he'd rather be rejected as a "homo" instead of as "andou jun" and when they do reject him, "the homosexual," the rejection just further fuels his internalized homophobia and makes it harder for him to escape that narrative/understanding.
 

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