Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a shonen fan. Being the Shonen Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores Jojo, One Piece, Dragon Ball and My Hero, who reads Jujutsu Kaisen raws, follows Toonami fan pages, loves Attack on Titan and e-girls, and reads Shonen Jump and watches Crunchyroll on day of release like she’s hosting the world’s biggest livetweet thread while somehow maintaining a normie appearance, because Shonen Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Shonen Girl never hates Sanji; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let the characters do whatever they want. Go ahead, sexualize the fifteen year old love interest, I don’t mind, I’m the Shonen Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Shonen Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has read too many comics written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or Hot Topic Demon Slayer backpack and say: The bitch doesn’t really love Spy x Family that much – no one loves Spy x Famly that much!
And the Shonen Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Shonen Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Shonen Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a cosplayer, so Shonen Girl dresses as Lady Tsunade with him at Otakon; or maybe he’s a YouTuber, so Shonen Girl is his girlfriend who makes ahegao faces on streams. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Shonen Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking show he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Shonen Girl? Because he says things like: “I like shoujo too.” If he says that to you, he will at some point say Nana is overrated. Because “I like shoujo too” is code for “I hate shoujo.”)
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