Re reading this manga bc is one of my fave bc how cute kanda and ookuma are, but man some yall really need to work on your reading comprehension bc the amount ppl before being like "bad manga, why the girl doesn't just confess she's a girl, it's so annoying" bc THIS! this chapter shows why, as light-hearted as it seems, Secchan view of things is not a minority and seeing how close she and ookuma are is more than understandable why kanda wouldn't want to reveal her gender in earlier chapters. I saw some ppl saying "this isn't the 2000's" no but it's japan and more than once it has been brought up in several types medias(in my exp) that japan as open as it may see w lgbt stuff bc of yuri and yaoi, it's still pretty conservative and see that kind of thing as a phase.
It was not dumb for kanda to think to think 2 woman being was weird bc it was prob the first time she had thought abt it seriously. As silly as it is.