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  • This implies that being trans is a decision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose whether you have schizophrenia or autism or ADHD too? Do it for attention for a while, mayhaps, and then once it starts getting tiring go back to normal?

    Not to mention that being a man automatically means being breadwinners/leaders/whatever is a bit of an outdated way of thinking. Gender equality still has a long way to go, but damn, successful women in stem exist and I would like to think that you can at least choose to become a househusband in this day and age… And if one truly cannot find a woman that wins enough to support both, maybe they can just “choose” to swing the other way? Have you asked your husband if he’s ever thought about doing that? It’d be a very reasonable financial decision, I encourage him to give it a thought.

    And it’s not as though being trans is a walk in the park. If one chooses to be trans, they’re going to get a life with far, far more worries than if they’d just stayed as the gender they were assigned at birth. Tons of people who hate them just for existing will appear, and whether they lose the right to exist could change in the future…



  • As for why it looks like crap, tbh it’s likely just because our letters are very thin. Vertically, an l would take the same space in the line as an ー which makes absolutely no sense and makes the lines look like enshittified junk food. On the other hand, the characters in the languages you showed are squarish, which means that they look good in both orientations.

    As for why it’s hard to read, as someone who’s learning japanese, it’s likely because people are just not used to it. While I started reading R-L fairly early in my learning journey and had no problem getting used to it, I had a friend who only started reading R-L after he was already pretty much fluent in the language, and he told me that he found reading it a little tricky despite reading L-R no problem. I assume that he read words, not letters, and reading in an orientation he was not used to threw him off. On the other hand, I was still learning so I read each character individually, which was why I didn’t feel much of a difference.