YMMV / Associated Student Bodies

• Fair for Its Day:
  • Setting aside whether or not including promiscuity in a comic purporting to be displaying realistic gay lifestyle in a way to encourage acceptance is counterproductive, many of the comic's detractors have come to it many years after its initial publication—and having already been exposed to the other furry or gay-themed comics which came later and were less about porn, more nuanced, in a number of cases better written, and certainly less predictable and cliche, they tend to view ASB as not living up to the hype. What is forgotten is that, however flawed the final product might be, it was a product of its time, and groundbreaking for its time. Stereotyped or not, unrealistically (or counterintuitively) promiscuous or not, it enabled and set the stage for everything which came after. Despite its flaws, this should be remembered—even if the standard it set was one which has long since been surpassed (and thankfully so), it still set it.
  • Every character in the comics is categorised as either straight or gay, even when they have had relationships and/or sexual encounters (and often, implied attraction) outside of their respective label. How much of that is simplification for the sake of the story, how much it's acknowledgement that people can have sex outside their sexual preference, and how much is good ol' bi erasure is debatable. Bisexual people were less visible in popular culture back when the comics were published (and that's saying something, as bi characters are still not exactly omnipresent).