Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-206.248.102.212-20130711220058/@comment-67.213.108.152-20140103021712

I thought Gou was just a nice little character added in who wasn't sexualized like most women in anime and was a supporting character. Why are some of you pretending she

"She was added to give straight girls someone which whom they can see themselves in so they wouldn’t feel alienated from the show." lol, um, no. If she was added in as a self-insert for straight girls, yaoi fangirls wouldn't bitch about her existence as a minor character. Actually, most people seem to whine and moan about female characters being mary-sues. You know what? Mary-sue is a gross term used to degrade females either because you hate them or you hold higher expectations for them than men because apparently they should have to prove themselves as worthy characters.

"I dislike her because she, as a heterosexual female has no place in an anime about gay men." Oh my god you are just proving the obvious point that you only hate her because she gets in the way of your gay ships. Her role in the story was that she's a supporting character and club manager. That's it. Why should you unfairly expect her to be a deep or interesting character? Nitori isn't. Mikoshiba isn't. And no, just because there aren't obvious negative traits to her personality doesn't mean she's a mary-sue when she's a minor character and barely has any traits to begin with!! Oh my gosh, what a shocking concept!!!

Anyway, I'm not going to rant much more, since this post is pretty dead, but seriously, you guys only dislike her because she's female and you wouldn't even care about these stupid little things if she was a guy. It's just a fun little anime about swimming boys.