General blue gay

General Blue is homosexual, this is confirmed when he rejects Bulma when she tries to seduce him as Krillin lampshades that he didn’t know that there we’re “gay bad guys”. In an anime filler he is shown that he likes boys of all ages, as is the case of Obotchaman specially.

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What is the controversy around General Blue's sexuality? The controversy around General Blue's sexuality stems from his implied homosexuality in the Dragon Ball series. He was first introduced as a woman, but this was later corrected. His attraction to Trunks/Future Trunks in video games is interpreted as a nod to Otokosuki, a homosexual character. General Blue is heavily coded as gay.

He is an excessively prissy and flamboyant character, being obsessed with his appearance and effeminate in his mannerisms. Blue can stay gay if he canonically was in the first place, but I'd prefer if his reasoning for rejecting bulma was mainly rooted in the fact that she was a high-schooler because that would give him depth as a slightly more noble/relatable villain (ignoring the fact that he'd murder children still).

The anime does seem to indicate that General Blue is gay. If it's only speculation from Bulma in the manga, then I would just say that he might be gay but his sexuality is ambiguous. Frederick the Great is one of history's most famous and adept military commanders. He's not Napoleon, but pretty damn close. The 18th-century Prussian king is credited with transforming a backwater patchwork of Baltic lands into a modern state — all while fending off armies four times the size of his own.

He was an infamous disciplinarian, a ruthless commander, and a military genius. He was the symbol of Prussian masculinity and militarism, and he was also most likely gay. Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Frederick's sexuality isn't noteworthy by itself, but it's surprising that his love for men was considered a matter of fact in the macho world of 18th-century Prussia. First, we have to get one thing out of the way. Debating the sexuality of historical figures from centuries ago is fraught with politics and conflicting social theories. Homosexuality is innate — at least it is for me — but the social conception of what being gay means has varied over time.

Where we use the word "orientation" today, 18th-century writers would call it a "taste. But didn't straight guys use to speak to each other in more intimate ways than they do now? A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day — and the best features from TheWeek. This matter is further complicated by how later historians — who either loved or hated him — dealt with Frederick's sexuality.

It was so widely known, the late historian Louis Crompton wrote in his book Homosexuality and Civilization , that historians had trouble reconciling Frederick's sexuality with his greatness. In his hagiography of the king, historian Thomas Carlyle rejected assertions that Frederick was gay as a " thrice-abominable rumor " spread by those with a "solacement to human malice and impertinent curiosity.

Some of these "rumors" likely were salacious. The historian Thomas Babington Macauley wrote that Frederick was prone to "vices from which history averts her eyes, and which even Satire blushes to name. Macauley was notoriously hostile to Frederick, and wrote that the king was a "haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates, and half Trissotin. But is it impertinent to talk about it?

Not according to numerous accounts at the time. In , two years after the king's death, the historian Johann Georg Zimmermann noted that Frederick was widely known to have — in perhaps a nod to Alexander the Great — a " Grecian taste in love. Voltaire, [the poet Laurent] la Beaumelle, the [French foreign minister] Duke de Choiseul, innumerable Frenchman and Germans, almost all the friends and enemies of Frederick, almost all the princes and great men of Europe, even his servants — even the confidants and friends of his later years, were of opinion that he had loved, as it is pretended, Socrates loved Alcibiades.

But even Zimmermann tried to straighten his hero, spinning a dubious and far-fetched theory that Frederick wasn't gay, he just wanted other people to think he was. According to this theory, Frederick had been medically castrated after contracting gonorrhea.

Being without his grapes wouldn't fit the image of a military commander, Zimmermann's theory goes — though there's no evidence Frederick was castrated — so he played gay. Frederick was born in at a time when Prussia was a military-dominated patchwork of titles and lands scattered from present-day Lithuania, Poland to across northern Germany. Four years before he was born, one-third of the kingdom's population died of plague.

Prussia was a resource-poor backwater surrounded by larger powers: Sweden , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Hapsburg empire in Austria. It wasn't a great place to grow up. Frederick's father, the Prussian king Frederick William I, was by most accounts a violent, bigoted, and abusive tyrant.