[ SECRET POST #2359 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2359 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[writerserenyty]

To be fair, Japanese gender equality is pretty bad. The World Economic Forum does a yearly ranking of Gender Equality, and in 2012 of the 135 countries surveyed Japan ranked a whopping 101st. Saying "Japan's not having this debate" honestly doesn't mean all that much.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/28/japan-ranks-101st-globally-for-gender-equality-but-web-users-shrug/

EDIT: not sure of the anime, so I might be off, but.

[(Anonymous)]

but in this light: there's another debate 99% of japan isn't having: the gender-debate as "we" know it. So if a character has boobs in a japanese medium they will probably be intended to be female, even if this conflicts with their "seikaku"/nature. most famous example: oscar. Other example: the "okama" gender.

so a): gender identities are not the same as anglo-american gender identities, and just imposing them on japan has an imperialistic quality to it.
and b): since there is little public discussion of "gender" and "sex" as constructed ideas in japan, seing representations of various subversive sexual or gender identifications in a medium is 90% interpretation on the side of the western viewer. I'm not all for "the authors intention is all that matters", but since we're not discussing how a character is "read", but what they're "supposed to be", we _are_ discussing intention.

+1000

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.