[ SECRET POST #3395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

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Comments

Possibly true, but also somehow offputting

[dancing_clown]

DEATHNOTE
Post 387: Jan. 27, 2008

Re: Possibly true, but also somehow offputting

[feotakahari]

If nothing else, it would help with the sexism arguments . . .

Re: Possibly true, but also somehow offputting

[(Anonymous)]

Well... is it better to make a villain a woman? people would then accuse Death Note of showing feminists as raging psychopaths or something. damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Re: Possibly true, but also somehow offputting

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I feel like Light's gender would change his role in the story. He's pigeon-holed in a role to be the best - academically successful, best schools, best jobs, everyone's expectations of a perfect kid. He doesn't have a chip on his shoulder, at least not outwardly, he doesn't really have a reason to resent the world. Considering Japan's sexism, especially when it comes to how successful they expect their male vs female youths to be, I don't think we'd see the same kind of Light Yagami.

I do think Light is gay though, in canon. But whatever frustrations he feels have to be on the inside - that's the point, because he has to keep such a perfect outward front.

Not sure if I'm explaining this right, but in essence, if Light were a girl, it'd be hard to not think that didn't directly impact her choice to become Kira, and then that'd be a different story.

L, Near, or Mello could have been women though - I don't think they had roles that would've been in any way impacted by a genderswap, I think the lives they led would have been more or less identical. Actually the first time I read the manga I thought Near and Mello were women. lol

Re: Possibly true, but also somehow offputting

[(Anonymous)]

Can you explain why you think Light is gay? To be honest, I never put much thought about the sexualities of the Death Note characters so I'm interested in this interpretation.

I agree that L, Near or Mello could have been women.