Do you have any opinion on Japanese writer/actor Yukio Mishima?

The hordes of fanboys who idolize him but are in denial about his homosexuality are utter morons. His sexual orientation is crystal clear, but what did I expect from Yukio Mishima fans lol. They want to pretend he was straight because they’re homophobic. He doesn’t fit their stereotypical image of what gay men are like (“Mishima can’t be gay because he’s too nationalistic and manly!! He is high test!!”), and they can’t handle the fact that they admire a gay man.

He’s a skilled writer but a total nutjob. It’s funny to see right-wing men praise Yukio Mishima as this badass figure of Japanese ultranationalism and traditional masculinity when he was a self-loathing gay man and felt racially inferior to white people. His whole life was like one giant cope.

Mishima’s hypermasculine persona was a way for him to “compensate” for his sexual orientation since the social construct of masculinity is deeply tied to men having a sexual interest in women, and straight men treat gay men worse than garbage (just look at his own straight fanboys who refuse to believe he was gay). He was a product of his environment and his contradictory nature makes him interesting to many, but that’s no excuse for being a hardcore fascist who wanted to restore Imperial Japan. If you see some men saying they are huge fans of Mishima then you should avoid them because there is a good chance they are braindead right-wingers, especially if they deny his homosexuality.

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By the way, him having a wife and kids doesn’t make him “not gay” or “actually bisexual”. Everyone was expected to get married to the opposite sex and have kids back in those days. He repressed his homosexuality, but he wasn't repressed enough to not cheat on his wife by having affairs with numerous men. He dated drag queen, Akihiro Miwa, and it’s well known that some gay men date male cross-dressers because they want to convince themselves they are attracted to women. (In fact, it was actually Mishima’s drag queen boyfriend who inadvertently provoked his bodybuilding obsession by pointing out his lack of muscles, which was something he was insecure about). It is obvious that Mishima was exclusively attracted to men. He even paid more attention to his cat than his wife.