this is almost certainly a troll, but it still caused me physical pain, so it deserves to be shared

also, kotaro uchikoshi seems pretty cool. the thread links to some of his good tweets

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    if you look at his original tweet there are a bunch of people going "non-binary people don't exist in japan" and uchikoshi, a japanese man, saying stuff like

    You said "only in the most privileged part of the west", but there are many non-binary people in any part of Japan too.

    and then they try to explain to him that actually he's wrong, and they know more about japan than him

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Absolute fucking legend coming in with the offer of emotional support and then the Sartre quote: https://nitter.exp.farm/Uchikoshi_Eng/status/1554731556920762368#m

      • Cromalin [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        very calmly explaining to all the awful people talking to him that gender is a social construct

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think I've heard of more enby celebrities from Japan than binary transpeople.

        • Ideology [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Now that I'm on the spot I can only remember Hikaru Utada and the singer in QUEEN BEE. Don't have tine to look them up rn but I've seen a few articles talking about how androgynous styles/aesthetics are becoming more popular and more people are identifying as X-Gender. Schools in Tokyo are also loosening their dresscode so that uniform genders are no longer strictly enforced and you can pick from 3 options now.

          • Cromalin [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            i could only think of hikaru utada and yuhki kamatani. should have remembered queen bee. i've read a bunch of stuff about x-gender people but i couldn't remember much, i was mostly just curious who you were thinking of