#being an exemplar of gender binarism with either of their childhood friends

[offbeat-manga-ships]

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read this one last night and i'm still angry. it basically ends up shitting on nonbinary people, intersex people AND even a little on polyamorous people just as a bonus. and to put salt on the wound you can see how much it wasn't really intended, but apparently mangaka are addicted to working out their cisheterosexuality, binarism and monogamy through a queer/poly lens without the slightest intention to give space to the people whose struggles and concepts they are using to sell their"musings on these complicated topics".

it's very similar to kanojo ni naritai kimi to boku in that way, but it manages to step even further into straight up offensive territory by trying to be "deep" about gender as in "what is gender anyway?" and giving an answer that if it's all a spectrum anyway you gotta live with the changes of your body that take you to a cisgendered path and do your special little woman/manhood that might be a little different inside, but you better accept the woman/man labels since it's all complicated anyway teehee. of course binary paths of gender are not a prison, you just have to figure out how to be free in your own binary gender (that is defined by your body btw).