On a more serious note, someone on
Eva Geeks had posited a conjecture, based on the implications of certain behavior by Asuka, that can be basically summed up by what I wrote
here: That she's "a paradoxical mix of sultriness and prudishness when it comes to sexuality" who "talks the talk, but is very likely to be unable to walk the walk if any of the males she was attempting to tempt (namely Shinji and Kaji) had actually reacted positively."
So your typical hormonal teenage girl then?
Now tell me, would it be farfetched to theorize that canon!Asuka may have been bisexual all along, with her feeling homosexual attraction towards such females in her life as Misato, Rei, and maybe even Hikari?
Umm... yes, it would be farfetched.
There is no evidence for this anywhere in canon.
Homosexuals account for less than 3% of the population, and bisexuals less than 2%. Those numbers are for men, and it has been speculated that lesbians are an even smaller percentage among women, but that bisexuals are more common. There are no real statistics on it, although the total is again unlikely to be more than 5%. Thus, without any evidence in canon, it is indeed... farfetched.
And that before Misato came along, she had been raised/conditioned to see homosexuality as an aberration (not uncommon in Western societies)? The conflict between socially ingrained homophobia and her own budding homosexuality could be a good explanation for part of her increasing abrasiveness towards Misato and Rei: she hates that they're evoking such "unnatural" feelings in her, and is even further pissed off by her own powerlessness in trying to deny such attraction (especially since she has reasons to hate both of them -- Misato for "stealing" Kaji's attention; and Rei for being seemingly a doll-like automaton, a one-sided rival for Shinji's affection, and the Nerv Commander's favorite).
Why would Misato have anything to do with changing Asuka's feelings towards women?
I'm sure there were other women in her life before Misato. Unless you are trying to hint that "non-Western" culture exposure was important? Hate to break it to you, but actually homosexuality is marginal in Asian culture too, including Japan. Sure the Japanese don't think of it as a sin like Christianity does, but they do believe it is a sign of serious immaturity and mental health problems.
In fact, historically it's Western culture that has the greatest acceptance of homosexuality (see Greece, cradle of Western civilization). You seem to be confusing "Western" with "Christian."
Additionally, you already explain why Asuka acts abrasively towards Misato and Rei, and those are far more likely and persuasive reasons for her behavior than Asuka secretly being a self-hating lesbian.
Asuka has problems, but being a self-hating lesbian is not one of them.
While we're talking about homophobia, I have a theory that gay rights had a serious retreat after Second Impact. Even without the frummers saying it was God's punishment, there'd be a huge drive to repopulate the planet. Gays and lesbians would be expected to "lie back and think of England," bisexuals would be seriously pressured into getting together with somebody of the opposite sex, and trans folk would be browbeaten and cajoled to delay their reassignments until after they popped out a few kids.
I doubt there was any browbeating of transexuals to delay their reassignments, rather that any kind of elective surgery just dropped off the list of things that were being provided anymore. What with the whole struggle to survive effort going on. I expect breast implant surgeries also disappeared virtually over night.
She doesn't have to show any signs of such tendencies. She could be that good at repressing them (if not completely in denial about it), to the point that only her homophobic reaction to said tendencies acting up would manifest (which would probably be later on, when her lagging behind Shinji and Rei worsens her psychological state and leads to her becoming increasingly volatile and temperamental).
I see. Everyone is gay, is because everyone is just suppressing the gayness because of homosexual self hate.
A more perfect example of "begging the question" could not be presented than this.
I'll have to remember this argument next time I'm teaching logic.
And the bit about Hikari... well, it could partially explain why she hates Touji so much -- that it's not enough he's a "stupid stooge" who deliberately and not deliberately keeps riling her up, but that he's "stealing" Hikari for himself (and of course, she would refuse to admit to herself the real reason she's possessive towards Hikari, instead trying to pass it off as her "duty" as Hikari's "best friend"). And it would be made even worse when Hikari sticks to Touji's side even after his accident, as well as when Hikari tries to comfort her when she sleeps over at the Horakis some time after Arael's mind-rape.
Or maybe, you know, Asuka thinks Toji isn't good enough for Hikari, just like she says.
Or she could be jealous of Toji taking away her friend's attention, even though her relationship is platonic. That is a thing you know.
I must say, I do resent this "all gay, all the time" thing in Western culture that has made it so that now any close relationship between two men is interpreted as signs of being gay. Are we going to start doing this to women too?
Is that the new thing now?
.
