The word itself is an amalgam of "trans" and "cartoon."
It describes a particularly obnoxious kind of person often encountered on the internet whose entire personality revolves around "gender identity" and "pronouns," etc...
Co-morbid symptoms include obsessively moderating subreddits and/or discord servers catering to other troons, coaxing children in said forums into becoming troons, and generally being a blight on common human decency.
Lol, this troon made up a gaggle of jannies in his head looking forward to the day when he graduates to Preddit power-jannie luring minors to his house with grey-market "gender-affirming" pharmaceuticals.
The eyes being so far apart (like a fish) makes it more realistic.
If asked, these same cry-bullies would unironically describe themselves as favoring "multiculturalism."
Nothing like that happened IIRC - let me clarify:
I meant that after the nefarious banana peel draped over a tree branch triggered "some of the attendees," everyone was ordered to gather in the gym or the auditorium or whatever and subjected to hours of "shut up and listen, y'all yt peepo need to do better," etc...
I don't have a source handy, but this reminds me of that one time an entire youth camp got shut down for a "struggle session" because someone spotted a littered banana peel in a tree.
I think this is a great idea, and I emphatically second Princess Mononoke.
For sure, and I thought it was a nice touch when they followed through on those limits for the desert arc.
It sounds like you haven't watched Avatar, so I want to confirm your suspicion that this character is absolutely being dragged through the mud here. I'd practically recommend watching the first series just for her (if you think it would be up your alley)
Personality, flaws, charm, humor, etc...she has it all. Her special ability is basically that her other senses have developed quite a bit to compensate for the blindness, so she's a real badass at her style of martial arts - and she never has to whine and moan about being blind or being a girl.
Gee...almost like a well-written character that the audience can relate to no matter their situation. Imagine that.
-never referred to herself as "disabled"
-never bitched about "ableism"
-never bitched about "fire-centrism"
-never bitched about "feminism"
-called Aang "twinkletoes" and constantly gave him shit for being girly
-never asked for gibs
-eventually became a single mother but never bitched about her ex. Said "it just didn't work out"
-still didn't ask for gibs
-ends up living alone in a swamp taking care of all her own shit and not bothering anyone else
-doesn't give Korra the pussypass and treats her like she's always treated everyone
They seriously can't tell the difference, can they?
He was doing a remix of the classic Ballad of the Kang.
I like that analogy - especially because in many situations you don't need a knife (or a corkscrew or a nail-file, etc...) at all.
By which I mean - starting too many of your sentences with watashi wa is the classic noob move. Just the verb (politely conjugated according to the context) is very often a complete sentence.
Best of luck in your efforts. 頑張ってね～
Oh for sure, and I do love me a tomboy waifu. And there's many an anime where the tomboy even refers to herself as ore or kono ore-sama, etc...right to a teacher's face...great fun, love to see it - but that'll land you in hot water IRL, heh.
My anti-wokie point was that watashi isn't inherently feminine (more feminine than boku? Sure.)
Imagine an up-and-coming dude with a deep voice in a three-piece suit going to some fancy corporate interview with a whole board of big-shots. In that situation, if he refers to himself as watashi, it's definitely more about humility and respect than anything else.
OP's original statement about it opens the door for wokies to claim that he's 0bviously n0n-b1n4ry since he used "feminine" watashi, which is exactly the kind of thing we can all agree is bullshit. Odds are he'll switch right back to boku with his friends at the izakaya after the interview is done.
Bottom line: your average degenerate Discord troon projecting their mental disfunction and political biases onto Japanese media, culture and language doesn't actually know anything.
Good post, but I think "watashi is exclusively used by women" is a bit of an oversimplification.
You are correct that many English-speaking students of the language learn it early and use it too much, because it usually isn't emphasized enough that it's often most polite not to refer to yourself with any word at all if context makes it clear that you're the subject of the sentence.
(Example: you make a surprise visit to a friend's house but find a message taped to the door - "Gone fishin'" No pronoun needed to understand who went fishing)
Assuming you need it, watashi is the default for everyone in polite contexts like introductions, professional interviews, etc...but again you'd only use it in certain situations like replying to "what about you?" or "what do you think?" questions.
(And in those situations even people of superior station would most likely address you as [family name]-san rather than anata (you) or anything like that.)
The "lack of pronouns in Japanese" is a real thing like you heard, but rather than delving into that, I'll just refer everyone to chapter 1 of Jay Rubin's Making Sense of Japanese.
Bit of an effort post, but I'm a very committed weeb when it comes to wokie junk infecting my precious Japanese media. So I'd rather everyone here be as informed as possible.
You're totally right about the money, but then that would be creating something new...and I think it's obvious at this point that all wokies are out to do is destroy.
The sad piano music was supposed to distract you from the China part.
Cog, meet Diss.
Imagine the sweat on the inside of that elbow oozing onto the back of your neck...
...hope you weren't eating or anything.
All I heard was "UNTAT GOONTAT...SOLOOOO"
I really think everyone should read Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, available for free at the link.
It's more of a novella/short story, but you won't regret it. Doesn't take very long to read. Truly a hidden gem that's just a click away.
Far away from any purity spirals.
Between the two subs it was over a hundred thousand people getting purple pills at the very least.
Do not be alarmed, citizen.
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STOP NOTICING.
Bad goy. No noticing allowed.
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