Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-173.51.123.20-20141110072138/@comment-10733658-20141110181744

Well said, Anon above me.

And honestly, I avoided even addressing our foul-mouthed Anon before about the whole Hitler nonsense. But we have officially reached the point of Godwin's Law. Argument over, Foul-Mouthed Anon loses and must now go home.

Someone having a problem with discussion about oppression and intolerance......in relation to a series that explicitly deals with those very subjects? Laughable.

Tokyo Ghoul handles some serious subject matters. And Ishida Sui has chosen, in writing the character of Tooru Mutsuki, to include a Transgender character. Since Japanese functions as a very gender neutral language, and pronoun choices communicate a lot of information about a person (their social status, who they are addressing, their gender and age, informal/formal situations) we can infer a lot based on Ishida's choices in the writing.

He has chosen to write a character that uses the most Masculine pronouns possible. He has also chosen to have Sasaki use gendered language in Ch. 2, when it would be easier and more common for him to use gender-neutral language to discuss Mutsuki with Dr. Shiba. Those are creative choices Ishida, who writes with a lot of focus on meaning and word play/symbolism, has made in relation to Mutsuki.

Can we at least agree to respect those creative decisions, since it is Ishida's manga and his character?