greenjade212:

ohshcphan:

greenjade212:

Oh, you mean: 

Because heavens forbids if a female character isn’t feminine

I don’t know who the other picture is of, but I want to say something about Haruhi quickly. She’s not feminine at school, but outside of school she does sometimes dress in a more “female” way. But this doesn’t have anything to do with her gender. She  has specifically said that she doesn’t care much about gender (gender roles, really) and doesn’t mind that people think she’s a boy. Because gender isn’t something that she gets bothered by.

I wanna preface this by saying that I’m japanese, so please forgive my grammar mistakes. I’m so tired of seeing western tumblrites using Haruhi or Haruka (Sailor Uranus) as poster children of their western micro-identities.

Neither Haruhi or Haruka was written as a social commentary.

  It’s pretty western-centric to think that Haruhi, Haruka, Bisco Hatori or Naoko Takeuchi ever heard of those so called tumblr-genders. What makes them think that those micro-identities are even a thing in Japan? What makes Haruka and Haruhi different from the other girls/women? The fact they are GNC? It’s pretty sexist to say that GNC girls and women aren’t ‘’real girls/women’’ and they should be considered something else.  Let me tell you something something about Japan, gender roles here are pretty rigid (maybe that’s the reason why Haruhi said she doesn’t care being seen as a boy. Let’s have some cultural nuance here, folks, so it’s pretty refreshing to see a gnc female character.