Guuuys, can I have your help with something regarding NH/NS? I'm having an argument with someone, that declares himself unbiased towards the pairs, YET guess his direction.
So, can someone help me?
The dicussion was this: we were discussing the hand holding, a NH fan had a sign with "kitten you NS Fans, NH is cannon" bla bla, went from there and I told him when the hug happened I think he didn't saw anyone from the forum screaming kitten you NH fans, etc (excuse the language), the hug was misinterpreted with the hug in the Iron Land but we cleared that in the mean time. So... basically let me copy paste to you maybe you'll understand better.
Me: And we were referring at the Pain situation.
And I could bring arguments on why that was also a NS moment, since Kishi himself admitted Sakura was being honest.
Him: Not exactly with the times, are we?
She gave him a hug after facing down a strategic-yield nuclear warhead incarnated into zombie-human form... and survived (not to mention managed to negotiate the bringing back to life of everyone who died).
After hitting him on the head (tsundere is popular in Japanese culture... one of the few times the 'dere' was not forgotten by Sakura).
Me: So we should say not exactly with the times when the other ship is shown?
It's about overall development and behaviors of the fandom, not the times itself.
Him: I think you miss the point.
Naruto had the opportunity to jump up and down and say: "Yay! Sakura likes me! Let's go get some Ramen together!"
He didn't.
Sakura has had the opportunity to go: "I think I'm really starting to go for Naruto, these days."
She hasn't.
Sakura's feelings are pretty obvious. She most certainly has a bond with Naruto, and cares for him. She can even recognize, consciously, why he would be a great 'catch' for any girl. But he doesn't make her loins tingle. It's frustrating - because her mind says that the carnal desire should exist... but it simply doesn't. And it never really will.
That's not to say she doesn't have compassion for him. That's not to say she doesn't care for him. It's just that the type of love that she feels for him is not the type of love that will lead to a romance in an open society.
Sure - stick any guy and girl into a room with no escape and they'll eventually get it on. Stick multiple people in a box canyon and they'll eventually prioritize each other and try to be with the ones they feel are the "best." But in open societies - relationships like Naruto and Sakura don't often develop into romances - at least, not lasting ones. If the romance was going to happen, it would have happened already.
Psychologically, people begin to develop aversions toward sexual concepts of those close to them for long periods of time in a platonic relationship. It's our species' guard against incest (which is why so few childhood friends grow into lovers as teens - while somewhat popular as a theme, it's actually very rare... which may, in a sense, defeat the point of comparing a fiction to reality; though I contend that many elements of reality will affect the progress of a plot whether or not the author is consciously aware of the research).
So, any help? Thanks in advance!
I mean, I have an idea with what I'd want to say, but since English is not my first language, I find it a little hard to express given the fact he uses some type of terms which I know, but I find it hard to connect it into a phrase.
Thanks in advance once again!
Well he did win that argument against you but that isn't the best part because basing on his logic and the context of the Manga we have, it's already proven that Sasuke does not see Sakura that way since he consider her annoying same goes for Naruto since he has Hinata pinning over his shoulder for a good while now to a point were she even told that she loves him, but the fact remains to see that the most we see coming from Naruto is that encouragement attitude he has towards Hinata, we never seeing him focusing on her appearance or anything about her he practically ignores her.
Now when you try to apply that same logic with Naruto and Sakura relationship there is were you fail because as far as we Known Sakura has being shown many times admiring Naruto while cheeking out his appearance and good looks, this cannot be said about the other two pairings. So no matter what this guy says to you the same logic applies with the other two pairing and even in a more obvious way.
Something else I want to point out and the main reason why I started to ignore some debaters, is the fact that they love to claim or acts as MR. Kishimoto himself, when they start saying nonsense like Sakura will never love Naruto in an clear romantic way, this when I always walk away since this is just fan speculation, personal desire and biased opinion on their part, worst when none of us knows what will happen in the end.