Seibetsu Fushou ni Koi wo shimashita. - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - I fell in love with X-gender

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Quite rude of him to ask them such a personal question just after meeting. Hope its not indicative of what to come from this mangaView attachment 18840.

Look at his face as he writes "sigh, this? Time to mess with him!"

A few days ago a chaser tried to holla at me and was gross about it, so I said "That's a weird thing to say to someone," and walked away. He looked mortified
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to bother you...!"
Then, I turned back and said "It's OK to have a type, but don't LEAD with that! SUCH a FUCKing TURN-off..."
He was SOOOOO far from my type (too masc, schlubby, dickhead energy...), but I figured putting things that way might make him at least act more decent in the future.

"What do you think?" 😏
Is a really generous reaction, but some people be like that.
I find it gross to be asked stuff like that.

 

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This district has been around since the '50s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Ni-chōme

These people will never listen.
Bridget comes out.
"Translators!"
Here's the Japanese audio button. Oh, you don't speak Japanese? What a shocker.
"NO!"
Creator "What do you mean, "no"? I wrote it, not you."
"LALALAALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALA MIND VIRUS"

 

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I've seen a lot of people (mostly Tumblr, to no one surprise) treat being NB as "female-lite", .

The word "lesbian" meant "homosexual woman" until that started.
I accept that it doesn't, and since I figured out I'm actually pan it doesn't directly affect me anymore, but that was a useful word for, what, 2000 years? Trixic already existed before Tumblr started treating adjectives like clubs.
Now the word "lesbian" means... basically nothing, really. I've seen people including trans men and femboys.
They are literally men!

An old acquaintance of mine is AMAB non-binary. They have been actively excluded from enby events.
It's as disgusting as TERF shit.

Edited for spelling

 

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😬 Me don't likely that word.

I don't blame you. I think of that culture (and word) as being... scaffolding. It was pretty crucial in helping subvert gender in ultimately positive ways but scaffolding isn't something you keep for the completed building and would be a hazard even if you did. But I do think part of embracing LGBT+ culture is acknowledging the cringe awkward phases that even played into homophobia/transphobia, like how many still ironically enjoy Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

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I don't blame you. I think of that culture (and word) as being... scaffolding. It was pretty crucial in helping subvert gender in ultimately positive ways but scaffolding isn't something you keep for the completed building and would be a hazard even if you did. But I do think part of embracing LGBT+ culture is acknowledging the cringe awkward phases that even played into homophobia/transphobia, like how many still ironically enjoy Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Yeah, but I don't need to say the t-slur outside of "here's a gross word that was used grossly and I am not going to repeat it for you".
The o-slur? Onee is the accepted term, now.
I'm not sure what onee is. It seems pretty loosely-defined, aside presentation, and even then the degrees are BROAD.
If I were Japanese perhaps I would know, but it's not like I engage with queer culture here in the USA much.

Things here are always so sexually-charged and trying to be more gay than the gayest thing since gay came to Gaytown.

OH!
Unrelated
And the bi erasure in Japan was so bad 15 years ago* that two people I was talking to in nichoume just stopped smiling and walked away.
Friend from Chilé: "Yeah, don't tell people that. They'll just consider you straight but experimenting".

*Pre-transition. I have been on a journey my whole life, and it was interrupted by a toxic and ultimately abusive relationship with another woman for nearly 9 years. (The ending has been a debacle since November. I nearly died on the streets, so I moved from MN to TX to live with my sister. 2/3 of my siblings are trans, Momma is wonderful. It's insane that I'm safer in DUCKING TEXAS!!!)

I didn't find anything but women attractive while that was going on.
She dumped me and I was like "WHOA! EVERONE IS SO HOT!" Not literally everyone, but if someone has good energy I'm probably gonna be like 😏

 

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Considering he's already in love... What is he trying to achieve there agonising over it?

People struggle with their orientation, Nekky.

 

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Robin is right. You shouldn't ever assume the protagonist is always necessarily speaking for the author's own perspective. That'd make creating a protagonist with an arc extremely hard to do.

The variety of gender and orientation things going on in Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is so broad (we don't have any characters confirmed ace, yet, but all the other major letters are covered and some + things) that there's no way it could all be from the author's perspective.



...it's also dripping with Jewish imagery (my drip has a lot of Jewish imagery, too) and themes. "If you know you know" sort of stuff.
I will always jump to this reaction I had to one colour image as an example of the Yiddishe awesomeness: "Who uses a gold Kiddish cup?! Hmm. I think I saw that design on Gefen's site. Or was that judaicawebstore... I love it. I want it. I need it."

Spoiler: crazy spoilers. Just read it if you aren't intimidated by nearly 400 chapters. I have read it 6 times, because I have never felt more seen

A boy who was abused by his birth parents and has an eating disorder as a result, cross-dresses occasionally (at least once just for fun) who is now in a bisexual triad that is fucking adorable.

This has a mainstream anime. The anime is targeted at the younger end of the audience.

His butler is ambivalent towards their gender, but wants to be ambiguous by default.

His teacher was a femboy (well, he also wanted it to be hard to know his gender at first glance) in HS, and now presents male. Seemingly just because he felt like it. People try stuff in real life!

NO ONE is bothered by this stuff. Iruma was like "what?! She wants to marry a girl?!" "Huh? Why would that matter? It's what I like! 😁" and then he never cares again.
That's the arc where he's in a dress for most of it.

I think his bf is trans? I'm 60%+ on that hypothesis, but if not there's 100% an allegory set up.

 

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Non-binary romcom??? Utter woke nonsense

I pray that this is ironic, and actually positive

 

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dang imagine how nice the Japanese genderqueer people who read this must feel. like it actually is well researched and looks to be peak.

 

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dang imagine how nice the Japanese genderqueer people who read this must feel. like it actually is well researched and looks to be peak.

One of the best manga on the subject I've read so far.
While I'm trans, I'm on the binary, as far as I can tell, so I can't judge accuracy. It's just well-written and cute.
I'm pan, so all genders are cute sometimes, and that took decades to fully get a handle on that.
I feel the cis dude here being "uuuuuhh... I dunno. Do I? Does it mean x? Does any of this make sense to me?"

Less educational in tone to Fukaboku. That didn't hold up to repeat reading, for me

I own this whole thing raw, and have read it a couple times, it's so cute.

I can't think of other enbies in my paid collection aside this enboy and one of the two protagonists of Haru no Mizu. HaruMi follows BL structure pretty close, but his gender does factor in. Subtle, some embedded in language and timing.