This little "brother" has titties, I wonder what type of explanation we'll get next chapter
They don't though? At best it's ambiguous, considering clothing detailing etc.
Yeah I'm not seeing the "titties". The brother looks a bit androgynous, in part due to clothing. That's about the only thing that really comes to mind when I think about it, but it's nothing surprising to me as there's a lot of variety to how people dress and look. I was only surprised by the brother announcement because I'm so used to new character introductions in romance series revolving around drama, love rivals, EXs, and so fourth. So my surprise wasn't over the "brother" part and more so that the new character is family haha
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_dear_lass_ch54#7 here is where it most suggests that? two dark contour lines and the way the light falls in the rendering of the color of their top suggests something there. regardless.
I'm not convinced of this discussion that we shouldnt categorize or impute transness tbh. The idea that gender binary, or at least portions identifiably "Western", of it, are an import, which by extension means misogyny/patriarchy with all the consequence that has upon transfeminine individuals? just doesnt accurately describe many many situations. I get specific terminology doesn't map one to one. but the mechanisms of transmisogyny aren't so disparate. I can show you thousands of women in the western sphere. who on account of transmisogyny, cede their claims to womanhood in the public eye in varying degrees, whether its due to filial pressures or greater societal ones ( the family has long ceased to have been "private"). I mean for fucks sake i rarely correct strangers these days. Like very clearly, the story itself is acknowledging the regime of heterosexuality that yes, is present in China. very clearly an observable fact!! queer and trans people don't fit the measure, it's been underpinning Xingyuan's character for a long time now! I'd love if it shook out to be a transmasc character but like the narrative trope in their introduction is still "wow you sure were fooled by everything about their presentation, from the way they looked and spoke, you were wrong, haha it's a boy actually" is not great. it is in fact falling on transmisogynistic tropes.
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again i'll say that i trust this author a lot. that said. its not outside the scope for anybody to drop the ball and default to the impulse of transmisogyny. maybe its 1 misstep in the grand scheme of this portrayal, but its still there and its still a warranted criticism
I'm not really sure if you're directing what you're saying at me specifically or if you're making more general statements. As I'm saying I'm not really seeing the breasts my self, art can be tricky to define, and I'm not thinking about the character's gender all that much, outside of the passing thought that the brother looks a bit androgynous to me. My main point was that my initial comment where I was surprised about the new character being a brother was more so specifically that the new character is family. I would have been equally surprised if the character was a sister or any other family relation.
Though I do feel like your comment is in some way meant to correct me and you're angry with me. I don't feel the need to defend myself or apologize as I don't think I've said anything wrong, rude, or offensive. I'm presently going along with the story and seeing how things unfold, I don't have any real assumptions about where things will go from here. Maybe the brother is transgender, maybe the brother is just her brother and that's how the brother looks. I just figure we'll see what happens but I'm not thinking too hard about it myself. All I can say in closing is that I hope if the brother is transgender that the author handles it well.
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