But I leveled up a bunch and got the Chrono Trigger. I'm ready for the good ending!
@travisrex said:
Reading what you wrote...i see a lot of naivety. You need to be very careful.
I'm curious, please tell me more.
@flashflood_29 said:
If you truly feel that you are a women trapped in a man's body
That's the thing, I don't. When you take away the penis=male idea as a valid one. I'm not really left with any feeling of meaning in gender. Definitely not for myself. And honestly I'm just left confused.
Maybe I'm agender? I have no idea at this point. I don't what I would base a gender identity on if I have one. I'm a person with a penis, and that's about it.
@flashflood_29 said:
Rejecting the notion of gender role and societal norms, and being comfortable with expressing your femininity (to any degree) doesn't automatically mean you need to reject your body. It's okay to be a feminine biological male while continuing to express what society sees as feminine, whether that be clothing, behavior, etc.
Very true!
Personally, I have no issue with body modification, though. And many cis men, for instance, get laser hair removal. I think that people should do whatever they want with their bodies, especially if it's healthy and will lead to happiness and longevity. There's nothing wrong with modifying your body if you're not cutting your life short. I think that, regardless of gender identity, people can look like whatever they want to look like. Sadly, with our current level of technology, there is only so much agency over what people look like. But there's nothing wrong with doing what you want to and what you can. Bodily autonomy and freedom and all that.
Personally, I see my body as just another avenue for self expression. And I don't really hold anything sacred in whatever birth genes gave me.
I don't feel a particular pull that I just have to do something. No matter what I look like or my body is, what's most important is that I have a pair of eyes, and a vessel to experience the world. But I don't think that changing my body would ever cause me any kind of dysphoria. So I'd might as well go for whatever sounds fun. Btw, 16K augmented reality contact lenses or even better, eye implants in my lifetime, please.
@flashflood_29 said:
If you truly feel that you belong in a female body, continue giving it some thought.
I'm not actually sure I truly know what a female body is.
So things I like for myself or admire are considered by human society to be facets of the "female" body, while others are considered facets of the "male" body. I'm not sure that a such thing as a "male" or "female" body exists outside of genitals and chromosomes and reproductive anatomy. Women and men come is so many different shapes and sizes, that there's really just statistic tendencies and probabilities to male and female bodies. I don't really think of them as male or female, just statistically probable.
Like breasts, for example. Is that an example of the "female body". Some men have them, some women don't. There's a statistical likelihood favoring women having them. And thus they are considered more a female passing feature. But I don't personally consider breasts the "female body". But rather an aspect of the human body statistically correlated in a certain way with women.
Or body hair. I think when people say things like "the male body", they're implying things like lots of body hair. But many women have lots of body hair, and many people don't. There may be a statistic tendency towards body hair in maleness, but that doesn't mean that having body hair is the male body. In fact, saying that "men have body hair" may not be any more reasonable or meaningful than saying something like "white people have body hair".
@therealseaman said:
Being an Otaku is not a good thing, it's often obsessive and obnoxious. A lot of girls here play games (far more than in the west, IMO) and read manga, it's very common but they won't identify as an Otaku...there is a more negative connotation.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. But I personally disagree and don't find being an otaku any worse than being a gamer. Also, bad or good, it's an accurate description of who I am as a person.
The other day, I went to work, completely felt like I was going through the motions and alienated. Came home, played VRChat, represented myself as a fantastic anime avatar, until I fell asleep, felt truly alive. Didn't want to have to stop and go to work the next day, but have to work in order to live. If that's not an otaku, what is it?
On the positive side, I don't think Japan is some perfect country or a paradise I would ever be accepted, welcomed, or loved in. And have no plans to live there or anything like that. I don't have any delusions that there is any real life place or culture that an otaku like me will ever be welcome or normal in. There is no paradise on Earth. And that's why I'm an otaku.
Japanese 2D culture, on the other hand, is my paradise. Fiction and the virtual can be as much of a paradise as it needs to be or is designed to be. Is that not the otaku manifesto itself?
Reality is a dystopia. A sordid miasma. That's the whole point and the whole reason 2D exists.
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