tw chihiro discourse , chihiro gender discourse //
GUYS PLS READ THIS I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING A FEW MINUTES AGO AND AM VERY PROUD OF MYSELF!!
so i used to see chihiro as a boy. i thought, "he said he wanted to get stronger to be *seen as a boy* so he was just insecure (1/?)
about his body."
NOW I REALIZE I WAS WRONG ABOUT THAT.
chihiro was never the one to say that. it was only AFTER they died that the OTHERS came to that conclusion. (i will be using they/them pronouns for chihiro in this thread, but i will be using she/her in later tweets) (2/?)
after chihiro& #39;s death, the other students violated their privacy, when byakuya and sakura looked at their body. then they came to the conclusion that chihiro felt like they "weren& #39;t strong enough" to be a boy and that they dressed as a girl to hide the fact (3/?)
that they were weak.
now i feel like even if chihiro were to say that themselves, that& #39;s sort of toxic masculinity AND transphobia? you cant be "too weak" to be a boy.
also, if chihiro really did feel they were just a "weak boy" and just wanted to get stronger, (4/?)
why would they have dressed as a girl? that would just make it harder to come out as a boy later. they could& #39;ve just continued dressing masculine and started working out.
now i DO believe chihiro felt weak, which is why they wanted to work out with mondo. but i don& #39;t (5/?)
think they wanted to be a boy.
when monokuma was explaining their secret, he said it was "something & #39;he& #39; could never let anyone find out".
why couldnt they let anyone find out? because they& #39;d get bullied for being weak? (6/?)
being outed and bullied for being trans would be a million times worse than being bullied for being weak. there& #39;s no way being weak was their only worry.
also, i don& #39;t feel like mondo was transphobic in this situation. he did everything he could to (7/?)
not let the others find out, and used she/her for chihiro up until the others discovered him as the blackened. he likely only switched to he/him ones afterwards to not cause a scene.
however, i& #39;m not trans myself so i can& #39;t say whether or not mondo was transphobic. (8/?)
thats up to trans people to decide.
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TL;DR , chihiro isn& #39;t a boy and didn& #39;t just think they were weak. they wanted to be seen as a girl.
IF U READ THIS ALL THANKS!! ITS KIND OF LATE SO I HAD A HARD TIME PUTTING IT INTO WORDS BUT I FEEL PROUD OF MYSELF FOR REALIZING THIS!! (9/9)
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