Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-173.65.73.64-20150223022342/@comment-10733658-20150223172105

I disagree, Cthulu. For better or worse, Mutsuki is a character tied heavily into Gender since that has been one major aspect thus far. It would be nice if there wasn't the constant fighting over it, and personally I think I would prefer things without the constant need to theorize about how "Mutsuki is just a scared girl".

Like I said, people might not INTEND any harm in doing so but the theorizing is problematic since it taps directly into the very ideology that at its core gets used to invalidate real people. It wouldn't be any different than if the fandom were sitting around theorizing how "Nico isn't actually gay, because I think he was probably molested as a kid". Or if people were busy theorizing about how Akira is unhappy because she's a career woman, instead of becoming a housewife.

Taking things into another analogy, it would be like people theorizing at length about how Mutsuki isn't actually darker-skinned than the other characters. Mutsuki just tans a lot due to insecurity, and once that insecurity is gone we will get an awesome, better-looking and happier Mutsuki with light skin!

It isn't perfect, but basically the point is that both lines of thinking are similar in that while a person might have completely innocent intentions.....the historical and social context of the ideas is born from really ugly places.