I Like My Women Tainted and a Little Rough

[arcadiasilver]

Ahh, I think I'm coming out of the post Animazement crash. I dunno about my feet though, they still kinda ache.

Either way, I need to upload the 100+ pictures from the Saturday Bleach shoot and all the cosplay photos otherwise. Photobucket is gonna hate me something serious.

Onto the topic on my brain, though.

I made a post over at the Rukia FC

Comments

[laurie_bunter]

Personally, I think it's a fanon thing. I remember reading an old fic by Debbiechan, where Rukia tells Ichigo no sex before the wedding. She says something to the effect, "I'm pure -- remember my zanpakutou is white?" Within the fic -- if I remember it correctly -- it was a silly, light moment. Still, the idea that Rukia is a virgin has been floating along in fanfic for a long time.

Perhaps it's due to idioms... you know, "as pure as driven snow" and all that.

Rukia does gives off contradictory vibes regarding her sexual experience, but its difficult to argue the point sometimes. She could have lost it to a whole number of people -- the fanon likely candidates include (but are not limited to): Renji, Kaien, Byakuya, even Gin.

Anyway, with that reductive logic (color of zanpakutou = sexual experience) then Ichigo would be the most sexually experienced person in Bleach... and he's not! I mean, boobs freak him out! *face palm* He's probably never even seen a naked pair before Yoruichi.

You know, this is a really interesting question... have you considered posing this question to a comm like bleachness? It's not an FC, so people aren't as easily offended or quick to shoot down an idea. Besides, there are a lot of feminists there.

[arcadiasilver]

I considered posting it to Bleachness, but I wanted to avoid clogging it with my weird thoughts and odd questions.

Rukia is a walking contradiction personality wise. In one scene we have a childish, Chappy-obsessed young girl and in the next panel, a wise, graceful, composed shinigami. But the thing about Rukia is that she's an actress, I often wonder how much of what she does is a production to keep people at a distance.

Re-reading Wind and Snowbound, several translations use the phrase "...zanpakutou of the purest white", which is where I think most of this is coming from. I really wonder how people get the idea that this means Rukia is "pure".

[kari_izumi]

I think it's just Western culture norms, like what someone else mentioned already. Some folks think White = pure and shut their brains off, in spite of everything saying otherwise.

And I too hate the idea that the only purity that matters is of the sexual variety (and I'm sure that *is* what most of fandom throwing this around was referring to), because Rukia really isn't...for all the reasons you mentioned.

(I think I've seen you around a few places and decided to click your journal to read moar. Good post!)