A Parallel World With a 1:39 Male to Female Ratio Is Unexpectedly Normal - Ch. 205 - Lunchtime Boys' Gathering, part 1

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Sou is becoming the God Emperor of this world. Men kneel before him and women gush within his presence.
 
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The writing and world-building in 1:39 is really enjoyable, but the writing of Suzuki is sheer genius. Seriously. Follow me.

He behaves the way a boy brought up in this world would behave. He begins by screeching, because as one of the few boys around, that's been his life: boys screech to get their way, because women automatically defer to them. (While there are the infrequent Chabatakes who don't defer, they push back dismissively.) He shouts at Sou, and Sou doesn't behave according to the societal norm: he's firm but composed. Suzuki's used to women reflexively folding before his tantrums, but Sou's neither giving in nor screeching back as most boys in the world would, I bet.

I completely believe that Suzuki is a hetero and a romantic in a world that's absolutely insane. That's why he's so into lesbianism: his lived experience with women has been, all his life, that they're insane horndogs (because the hetero women are so profoundly lonely). I'll bet he's been leered at, possibly attacked when he's gone outside, and at best his family endlessly drilled into him that women are not trustworthy (if they didn't groom him as their prospective husband, which apparently is so common in this world that Sou's classmates all expressly assumed that he, with a mother and two sisters, already has three wives). The only exceptions in this world are lesbians, who can have explicitly romantic, sweet, and emotional attachments, and not need to obsess over sex, because there are many more potential partners. I'll bet Suzuki would love to have such a relationship, but he's not gay, and a hetero relationship in this world is impossibly fraught.

Where Sou really turns the tables on Suzuki is when he refers to Hana as 'Hana-taso' an affectionate, respectful nickname; there's no way Suzuki (or anyone in this world) has heard a man refer to a woman like that. He immediately calls it a ridiculous nickname, and Sou tells him she saved him calls her '-taso' out of respect AND asks Suzuki to stop mocking her. For the first time in his life Suzuki is hearing a man being respectful and protective of a woman, and it brings him up short; this is completely alien to him, but as a romantic with a picture of idealized women, this clearly touches him. He's clearly rattled, and apologizes, and then Sou completely overturns his world: he compliments Suzuki's behavior. There's again no way Suzuki has heard a compliment that wasn't inspired to get sex from him, ever, from either a woman or a man.

And this is the most profound element: I'm certain Suzuki has never had a male friend. Ever. He was probably kept in the family apartment to protect him from crazy, horny women, never got to roam about freely, wrestle with the boys, do boy stuff. When he met other males, there probably was the whole 'secret flower garden' element looming over everything--after all, he was derided for wanting to watch 'beasts mate' because of his interest in women as emotional beings.

He's reacting the way a boy raised in a crazy world would, and the way he'd likely react to the baffling behavior of a boy from our world.

Brilliant worldbuilding and brilliant writing.
 
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The writing and world-building in 1:39 is really enjoyable, but the writing of Suzuki is sheer genius. Seriously. Follow me.

He behaves the way a boy brought up in this world would behave. He begins by screeching, because as one of the few boys around, that's been his life: boys screech to get their way, because women automatically defer to them. (While there are the infrequent Chabatakes who don't defer, they push back dismissively.) He shouts at Sou, and Sou doesn't behave according to the societal norm: he's firm but composed. Suzuki's used to women reflexively folding before his tantrums, but Sou's neither giving in nor screeching back as most boys in the world would, I bet.

I completely believe that Suzuki is a hetero and a romantic in a world that's absolutely insane. That's why he's so into lesbianism: his lived experience with women has been, all his life, that they're insane horndogs (because the hetero women are so profoundly lonely). I'll bet he's been leered at, possibly attacked when he's gone outside, and at best his family endlessly drilled into him that women are not trustworthy (if they didn't groom as their prospective husband, which apparently is so common in this world that Sou's classmates all expressly assumed that he, with a mother and two sisters, already has three wives). The only exceptions in this world are lesbians, who can have explicitly romantic, sweet, and emotional attachments, and not need to obsess over sex, because there are many more potential partners. I'll bet Suzuki would love to have such a relationship, but he's not gay, and a hetero relationship in this world is impossibly fraught.

Where Sou really turns the tables on Suzuki is when he refers to Hana as 'Hana-taso' an affectionate, respectful nickname; there's no way Suzuki (or anyone in this world) has heard a man refer to a woman like that. He immediately calls it a ridiculous nickname, and Sou tells him she saved him calls her '-taso' out of respect AND asks Suzuki to stop mocking her. For the first time in his life Suzuki is hearing a man being respectful and protective of a woman, and it brings him up short; this is completely alien to him, but as a romantic with a picture of idealized women, this clearly touches him. He's clearly rattled, and apologizes, and then Sou completely overturns his world: he compliments Suzuki's behavior. There's again no way Suzuki has heard a compliment that wasn't inspired to get sex from him, ever, from either a woman or a man.

And this is the most profound element: I'm certain Suzuki has never had a male friend. Ever. He was probably kept in the family apartment to protect him from crazy, horny women, never got to roam about freely, wrestle with the boys, do boy stuff. When he met other males, there probably was the whole 'secret flower garden' element looming over everything--after all, he was derided for wanting to watch 'beasts mate' because of his interest in women as emotional beings.

He's reacting the way a boy raised in a crazy world would, and the way he'd likely react to the baffling behavior of a boy from our world.

Brilliant worldbuilding and brilliant writing.
Sorry but author didn't actually do any world building, this setting is called reversal world, or reversed gender roles, and is about original as isekai is, it's getting almost as common too. Granted it was limited to pornographic/smut before and is now becoming main stream which is new.
First one I saw of this setting was in like mid 2010s, world of moral reversal.
 
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I'm still predicting the Aizen hair smooth and glasses break.

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He's legit mad for MC destroying the yuri vibes. The guy has conviction, I'll give him that.
 
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What's happening? I can't understand. Why Suzuki-kun is so devastated and docile?
 
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Sorry but author didn't actually do any world building, this setting is called reversal world, or reversed gender roles, and is about original as isekai is, it's getting almost as common too. Granted it was limited to pornographic/smut before and is now becoming main stream which is new.
First one I saw of this setting was in like mid 2010s, world of moral reversal.
Yes, as there is definitely no difference between The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Both are just Isekai, after all. Star Wars and Star Trek are the same, because they are both just super popular Sci-Fi shows, right? D.C. and Marvel are the same, right? I'm being pretty flippant, but you should get the point that your reduction is about as useful as pointing out the sun is in the sky.

I can even pick 2 different 'Gender reversal worlds' I greatly enjoy that aren't the World of Moral Reversal that have different world building from this one. It isn't that hard. Yes, Virgin Knight is set in a different time period and the focus is more on time period politics in between a lot of trying to get into Faust's very big britches, but by your own definition it is a World of Gender Reversal.

Kakudzukesareru sekai de iketeiku | Living in a Class Based World
Set in a world with a much higher gender ratio disparity. All men in their country are sent to their own special section of a town in the region.

Teisou Gyakuten Sekai no Doutei Henkyou Ryoushu Kishi | Virgin Knight who is the Frontier Lord in the Gender Switched World
The MC was reborn into essentially the Holy Roman Empire as the above states. He has to remain chaste before marriage, and only barely remembers stuff from what was effectively 20+ years ago from his prior life.
 
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Misunderstandings built upon misinterpretations built upon assumptions built upon facades.
This is like watching a game of Jenga played in a house of cards on top of a sand castle inside a typhoon. I don't know how it's still going, but I'm here for it.
 

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