It is really crappy of you to suggest that someone isn't a girl, or that the author should make a "het romance series" just because one of the characters looks boyish.
It is REALLY crappy of you to suggest that a girl isn't a girl just because they look boyish.
Sun Jing is a girl, and she has a girlfriend. This is yuri. This is a cute comic about a cute queer relationship between two lovable chinese dorks. If you don't like Sun Jing's look when the author jumps forward for a post-haircut strip here and there, then, well, deal with it. Sun Jing and Tan Jiu don't owe you anything.
I have to disagree with that.
No, you -chose- to disagree with that.
Yeah if Sun Jing is a girl in real life, even if she look like a dude, act like a dude, she is still a girl because there are so many other things to define a person's gender.
However, Sun Jing is just a fictional character, if the only thing makes her a girl is the author said that, then she failed to create a female character. In my opinion, Sun Jing look girly enough, but other than that, she is just like a dude, her dressing, her personality, how she acts, and even the behavior of everyone around her, etc, bring that feeling. I can describe some:
You think there aren't actual real life tomboys that see a character like Sun Jing and identify with her? That might wander into a forum thread and see somebody saying this character with whom they identify isn't girly enough?
It doesn't -matter- that SJ isn't a real person. There -are- real people who can be hurt by that kind of talk, whether or not the talk is directed straight at them or not.
Sun Jing is a girl. She identifies as a girl, which does -not- just mean "the author says so". The character, in universe, describes herself as a girl, and when she falls in love with a girl, she brings it up to her best friend and explicitly frames it in the context of being gay. She calls herself Sun Jing's "girlfriend". She dresses boyishly, because that is the kind of girl she is. She is allowed to be that, and she does not have to justify her existence, as a character or a person, to anybody else.
- Every girls in the series wear a ribbon, but she wear a necktie like other dudes. I'm talking about the school uniform, why the author do this? To indicate that she is 'different' from every other girls?
- All of Sun Jing's friends are dudes. Sun Jing's friends also treat her like a real dude: swearing, jokingly hit her, and no one ever falls for her.
- You can see any person falls for Sun Jing is always a girl. She only attracts girls, the attractiveness is insane, like "Oh, look at this girl over here, she's so tall, she's so handsome blushing, hey Qiu Tong, please give me her number". Did I say "always a girl"? Yeah, in this series, no dude bat an eye on Sun Jing, only girls, while Qiu Tong only attracts dudes.
Those all bring me a feeling of a het story, like the author firstly create a het story in her mind, then she decided to change the male character to female, because if it's het, it'll be too boring to get popular. To be fair, there are several chapters which Sun Jing has some unique feminine feature, such as she groped a girl and framed Mophead, or tricked Mophead to a girl toilet, but they are all at the very beginning of the story and there aren't any chapter like that anymore.
I know that in some story with tomboy character, the character may have some masculine feature, but Sun Jing is too much, enough to make me always think of a dude despite of her girly appearance.
Tan Jiu is LITERALLY fighting against government censorship over this series, and you're gonna swing in here and suggest she's just trying to be popular by making SJ a woman?
(bristles)
I really want to just unleash a string of profanity right now, but I'm going to try to keep myself mostly restrained. Like I said, there are actual real women exactly like Sun Jing in the world. There are women that look like boys, and women that act like boys, and women that have nothing but guy friends. There are women who dress in boy's clothing, that still think of themselves as women, and they are -allowed to be all of those things-. The author, similarly, is allowed to decide to make a story about such a girl, for whatever damn reason she wants. To be popular, to make a social statement, because she just fuckin' feels like it.
You, by contrast, get to decide that "this kind of story doesn't interest me", but quit pretending like the story is wrong, or objectively bad, just because it isn't aimed specifically at your tastes. There is a difference between "something is not to my personal tastes" and "this thing is poorly written or handled".
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