They Call Me Doctor Worm

The necessity of passing is directly related to the cultural coding of gender. In their ethnomethodological study of the implicit ways in which gender operates, Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna demonstrate that social meanings are grafted onto bodies in order to give them one of two binary sexes. The researchers presented 960 students with representations of many different bodies. For example, they showed a picture of a body with long hair, breasts, and wide hips, and asked the participants in the study to tell them if the person was a “man” or a “woman.” Kessler and McKenna found that the interpretation of sexed bodies was overwhelmingly skewed in favor of masculine referents. If a penis was present, a “male” gender attribution was made 96 percent of the time. Yet in order for a figure to be considered “female” more than 95 percent of the time, it needed to have a vagina and two other cues indicating femininity (e.g., long hair, breasts). This research has profound implications for the study of violence and gender. If gender ambiguity is habitually resolved within a masculinist frame of reference, then genetic males who live as women will be among those most at risk for assault. Simply put, within Western societies, it is easier for females to pass as men than for males to pass as women. Ethnographic research on gender confirms this hypothesis: in Holly Devor’s study of “gender-blending” females, she notes that several of the women she interviewed felt free enough to walk down dimly lit streets late at night, given that they were perceived to be men. Furthermore, many genetic females can live full-time as men without plastic surgery and/or male hormones. Conversely, many genetic males need to take female hormones in order to pass successfully as women.

Art by Worry Lines

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

The fact that it's Japanese probably doesn't help; I wouldn't be surprised if at least part of the novelty of "woah this shit is actually good" comes from casual chauvinism towards Japanese (and likely any "Non-Western") media in general. Like there's plenty of people who eagerly praise certain pieces of Japanese media while operating under the unspoken assumption of "It's all dumb pervert shit until proven otherwise", and a lot of praise I hear for Chainsaw Man takes that real backhanded form of: "Amazingly, somehow, this pervert shit isn't dumb"

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Jax art posted with his permission!!

exactlyyyy! you get it! i've seen this cycle like 5 different times minimum