Katria

people should be putting focus on actually helping women and girls closer to them by giving them information and support. i think thats far more effective.

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So, if Tokiko doesn't have much control over her own life, she, consciously or not, seeks to compensate her lack of agency and to control someone else, namely her brother. As an older sister, she's supposed to look after and guide him, but her own powerlessness dictates her to abuse their asymmetrical relationship and impose her desires on him. Guattari called it microfascism and, generally, it's benign, but if left unchecked, it can grow into regular fascism. Although I can't call Tokiko a fascist for quite obvious reasons, she seems to have certain authoritarian psychological traits; her relationship with Mamiya looks too similar to how authoritarian nationalist leaders treat the nation they govern: they say it's for the nation's own good, but rarely listen to what people say, so they end up making things worse. Mamiya doesn't want eternity or to be the Rose bride - Tokiko and Mikage do.

Both Tokiko and Mamiya's lives could've been much better if the prince-princess system didn't exist.