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I also get the impression that it is only after a gender has been assigned that you are seen as human.
You grow anxious when, wherever you may be, you encounter someone who you cannot immediately classify as male or female—or, to put it another way, when the “evidence” for your gender judgment is conflicted. This is because, according to your narrow system of understanding, it is difficult to decide how to interact—for example, what honorific should you use—with someone whose body you simply cannot decipher.
No one knows that the game itself is a mistake.
It seems that even the air gets tired of pretending to be empty now and then.
You’ll all say that I don’t know what beat to follow, and if I’m crazy, I’m solidly crazy. But, dear reader, don’t you know it all too well? Know that if you aren’t crazy, at least once, there will come a time in your life when you simply cannot bear it. A
My ability to transform depends on what condition my body is in. I follow its lead when making these decisions.
IsaidI’mnotgoingtoeatyousostoprighttherewhycan’tyoutrustmeI’mnotgoingtokillyouIswearpleasecomebacktomeIloveyou!
If they were the same as me, I couldn’t eat them.
Thanks to the beauty standards on this planet, I’ve become much ugl ier than I was before.
I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria. So, I just learned how to act as if there were.