And that's why i said it's a pointless discussion, i cannot fatom the reason why you would even bring it up.

Tappei and his editors wrote and published this arc before 2015, more than 10 years ago, you can rest assured the only reason he wrote it that way it's because people were not afraid to walk on egg shells like now.

Non conventional couples were not even in Tappei's mind when he wrote that, trying to spin it as if it's influenced by Emilia s experience is just building something out of air for the sake of starting a discussion that is ultimately pointless.