#mizu states she’s a woman and here are moronic think pieces because they can’t remotely take two minutes to relate to women who aren’t yt

[dicapiito]

This is how yt people, including yts in the lgbt community sound when they stay dismissing Mizu’s actual gender, a WoC who is a biracial Japanese woman because they can’t relate nor care to relate to WoC and PoC

Blue Eye Samurai is playing 3D chess with gender. Mizu's presentation is shaped not only by internal perception of self (of which we cleverly see very little) but by external forces of sexism, colonialism, xenophobia, and vengeance that have shaped their world. Their gender is contextual, fluid, used both as an expression of vulnerability and a blunt force weapon. It's all in service to their ultimate goal, yes, but we see through flashbacks and conversations with Madam Kaji and others that it's also deeply personal, deeply hidden, deeply entwined with desire and duty.

[blue-eye-samurai]

For real 🤦🏻‍♀️ @dicapiito all these think pieces from white folks (including queer ones) going on and on about the supposedly “ambiguous” and “fluid” nature of Mizu’s gender are genuinely so exhausting to see every single day here. It hasn’t even been two months since the show was released and I’m already tired of seeing this crap in the tags every single day.

Like yes, okay, everyone should be able to enjoy their headcanons and personal interpretations of fictional media, but they should also be able to do that without erasing Mizu’s canon narrative as a woman of color. Blue Eye Samurai is about being a biracial Japanese WOMAN. Hell, it was literally co-written by a biracial Japanese woman (Amber Noizumi) as well, so Mizu’s experiences are very much shaped by women of color.

Mizu is mainly ostracized by Japan’s society for being “too white” in their eyes — she is not seen as a fellow Japanese person even though she was born/raised there and only speaks Japanese. And then later on, Mizu is also shunned (by her own husband) for not being a woman who is submissive, traditionally feminine and classically beautiful by Japanese society’s standards.

No matter how hard she tries, Mizu is never seen as a true “Japanese” nor is she seen as a true “woman” even though she is actually both. Mizu is not seen as a human being — she’s only seen as a monster, as a disgrace to society and is constantly treated as such. If that doesn’t directly speak about the experiences of women of color, then I genuinely don’t know what does. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mizu presents as a man out of survival, not out of desire. She allows people to refer to her by he/him pronouns out of necessity, not because she actually identifies as a man. Mizu herself said (to Mikio) in her own words that she HAD to be a man, not that she wanted to be one. None of this was actually a choice for Mizu.

It was Mizu’s “mother” who told her since infancy that she must always be a boy — it wasn’t the other way around. Mizu has been forced to live as a man even when she never even wanted to be one. And yes, I can definitely see how that experience will resonate with many different queer people (trans, nonbinary, intersex, etc) but that doesn’t make this a queer story. People insisting otherwise are actually misgendering Mizu and are projecting themselves onto her story.

Like seriously, how do they (white queers) STILL not realize that women of color aren’t seen as “women” unless we are as hyper feminine as Akemi is? How did they watch this whole show from beginning to end and STILL not realize that one the main reasons why Mizu is so angry is because she was denied womanhood since birth? It genuinely infuriates me how quickly and swiftly they do this, especially to women of color who aren’t traditionally feminine.

Just because Mizu walks the line between femininity and masculinity, it doesn’t mean that they have the right to discount her perspective as a woman. Just because they find things about Mizu that resonate with them personally as a queer person, it doesn’t mean that she’s canonically nonbinary or trans. White queers seriously need to stop making everything about themselves for once.

Blue Eye Samurai is playing 3D chess with gender. Mizu's presentation is shaped not only by internal perception of self (of which we cleverly see very little) but by external forces of sexism, colonialism, xenophobia, and vengeance that have shaped their world. Their gender is contextual, fluid, used both as an expression of vulnerability and a blunt force weapon. It's all in service to their ultimate goal, yes, but we see through flashbacks and conversations with Madam Kaji and others that it's also deeply personal, deeply hidden, deeply entwined with desire and duty.