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when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.
is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?
why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesnβt want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?
core concept: what is gender essentialism?
is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?
look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means youβre incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?
what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?
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I am so utterly fascinated by βSakiβ, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decadesβ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from βthe fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheekβ to βthe pussy is completely out on center pageβ over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in βSakiβ donβt wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And itβs still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. Itβs because the underwear ran out of places to hide. Iβm obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of βSakiβ, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didnβt even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I donβt know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, βthe one with the big boobsβ, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesnβt get lost in the noise. Itβs just that normallyβin like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for exampleβnormally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and youβd go, βWell, this is now untenable.β
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
Itβs like this, okay: thereβs no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. Thereβs a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with βSakiβ is different.
Itβs hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as βleeringβ, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into itβI canβt imagine anyone is making her do thisβbut βSakiβ the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in βSakiβ. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of βSakiβ, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so itβs no problem. Itβs so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of βSakiβ, right: itβs just normal that they donβt wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. Itβs been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. Itβs just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, itβs in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like whatβs the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because itβs mahjong time now, and weβre playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why Iβm so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
I have so many questions... How does one SUSPECT a manga character isn't wearing underwear? Like, sure, boobs are front and center amd you can see them get bigger panel by panel but how does this work for panties? Are there just that many upskirt shots?
Also how do you keep a manga about Mahjong going for 18 years, what??
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i think about how the meta was going to kill wash but hesitated. i think about how he left the healing unit on washβs unconscious body. i think about how wash knew that the meta didnβt like needles. and the fact that they made him get a tattoo anyways.
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I was woken up (in the dream) by my girlfriend to the news that our roommate, (who had irl just gone to a mental health ward) had died and was being unethically reincarnated. the text she showed me in the dream was from her friend going "my best friend just DIED. and theyre turning her into a JUJUTSU KAISEN CHARACTER"
it was a deeply serious and horrifying thing, because she was simply getting isekaied into jjk, and presumably wouldnt have any powers or anything.
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the ships for wash are great. you can ship him with whom used to be his colleague and now is a shell of himself, a guy he can't stand but have each other's back, a mercenary who is obsessed with him, the medic he kidnapped for a while, the guy he shot and even the ai he had implanted for like a couple of minutes