Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-4010415-20191203195802

Jonathan Mott wrote: Qrow has basically been replaced with a teenage girl who's character model has glitched out so that it resembles someone two or three  times her ageof the opposite sex so this one was kind of dead on arrival for me anyway.

The most I can hope for with this is that Eddy brings Qrow character back in perspective and Clover's character down to earth. Which is to say the Clover's intellectual, but in an affected girly way and not the pragmatic military way a ace operative would be expected to behave.

I know that gender roles are another sticking point in all this mess, but if we're going to have this relationship, is it too much to ask to make it a relation s hip between two men and not two female-insert yaoi protagonists. Whatever floats your boat I guess, but making these guys  so overpoweringly    effeminate kind of defeats  the point doesn't it?  <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">

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Um... Qrow and Clover's behavior didn't strike me as effeminate, dude. They still seem like men.

Qrow has always been a bit edgy and worried about his Semblance, and it causes him to have low self-esteem. Men can have a negative self-image. It doesn't make them effeminate.

Being an ace operative doesn't define Clover. That shouldn't be 100% of his character, or even 99% of his character. Ace military people don't act like ace soldiers every second of their life. Clover recognizes that Qrow is keeping himself in a bad mindset, and he's just like "Dude, stop that." Men can be nice and have concern for other people. That doesn't make them effeminate.