I had grandiose ideas of a whole essay last night, but now I think we should take things one step at a time. You did convince me to stay in this thread and go on record. I'd like to be a helpful weeb on here moving forward.

I share your disgust with the untested hormone treatments, the mutilating surgeries and the perpetual maintenance of what the body naturally treats as a gaping wound. Not to mention the narcissism, melodrama and constant attention-seeking regularly displayed by...I'll call them WTs (Western Ts).

Let's start with just one data point illustrating that not all gender-bending has to be like that. What do you think about this clip? (from Komi can't communicate, finished airing in January)

I'll play along with pronouns since she isn't being a dick about it (heh). Her name (Osana Najimi) is a play-on-words referring to osanajimi=幼なじみ. Part of the joke is that maybe she's able to make so many friends because she's not exactly a he or she. It's critical not to invoke the term "non-binary" here, which drags in loads of politicized garbage from the US. This is an example of Japan doing it's own gender thing like I said, and it's only projection when redditors hop on it with their vocabulary.

The term the narrator uses to describe Najimi's schtick is seibetsu-fumei= 性別不明, which one could render as "gender-ambiguous/unkown" or something like that.

Anyways how about that good mood? Strikes me as a rather more pleasant and functional individual than your average WT, amirite? She did the work to make friends. She didn't demand love and acceptance on the basis of some abstract theory of her human rights.

I had grandiose ideas of a whole essay last night, but now I think we should take things one step at a time. You did convince me to stay in this thread and go on record. I'd like to be a helpful weeb on here moving forward.

I share your disgust with the untested hormone treatments, the mutilating surgeries and the perpetual maintenance of what the body naturally treats as a gaping wound. Not to mention the narcissism, melodrama and constant attention-seeking regularly displayed by...I'll call them WTs (Western Ts).

Let's start with just one data point illustrating that not all gender-bending has to be like that. What do you think about this clip? (from Komi can't communicate, finished airing in January)

I'll play along with pronouns since she isn't being a dick about it(heh). Her name (Osona Najimi) is a play-on-words referring to osanajimi=幼なじみ. Part of the joke is that maybe she's able to make so many friends because she's not exactly a he or she. It's critical not to invoke the term "non-binary" here, which drags in loads of politicized garbage from the US. This is an example of Japan doing it's own gender thing like I said, and it's only projection when redditors hop on it with their vocabulary.

The term the narrator uses to describe Najimi's schtick is seibetsu-fumei= 性別不明, which one could render as "gender-ambiguous/unkown" or something like that.

Anyways how about that good mood? Strikes me as a rather more pleasant and functional individual than your average WT, amirite? She did the work to make friends. She didn't demand love and acceptance on the basis of some abstract theory of her human rights.