i deserve a spider-woman nepal..... miles doesn't have to be the only teen spider with a terrible bisexual mentor (enter my own sketches of the world's most annoying spiderperson, who i fling towards pavitr, complete with a design that's subject to change)
everything containing “ 女 “ (female) in chinese character etymology means something negative, cunning, devious, dark, or to indicate a servant. studying and knowing all those characters sickens me to the core. confuscianism furthered this in east asia weakening women’s rights - before confuscianism, korean dynasties had female kings and some property rights.
though we often use different chinese characters in each cases, china - korea - japan
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the origin of the “female” character is a woman kneeling
in other explanations in confuscian texts, it says it is an image of a person kneeling with their neck in a pillory
on the contrary, the letters for “man” 男 is a person with the power 力 to feed 10 十 (shi) 口 (gou) mouths= family
Wife as housemaid
a woman outside a home(under her husband) is not safe
women with other women are always plotting
a man is allowed to have multiple wives, especially if she does not bear children: but he does not generally need justification. a women should never be jealous, jealousy (contains chinese character for female) is one of the 7 sins that husbands could banish, or beat their wives for
women + hands = servant
add fire onto the mix of the same characters of “servant”, you got “anger”
a lot of negative emotions in chinese characters are associated with symbols of women
“Power” : women subjugated under a weapon
fraught mentions of female inferiority
남존여비 is a word often brought up in korean culture, as in males are precious and respectable “ 尊 ” and females are inferior by birth “ 卑 “ . Men are high, women are low. Gentlemen comes first
All I want to do is wax poetic about how Waan and Tul are finally doing a story I've wanted BL to do forever... a story about the power of anonymity and how much it can help people who are struggling with their identity and place in the world.
Waan and Tul fell in love without faces and without names. They fell in love with an avatar and a voice and a soul and they are proof that they can love each other no matter what because Tul definitely loved Waan before he ever saw his face and Waan trusts Tul all the more for not knowing him.
This is the power that the internet can bring, the power of trust and togetherness that only knowing the words of another person can create. They could be on different sides of the world, they could never have a chance to meet, they could be anyone.
But they are them and they have fallen in love with so little and yet that love is there and it matters so, so much.
(We've seen so many shows about meeting over video calls or one side being anonymous and the other side knowing but this is one where they genuinely started without knowing each other and it's beautiful.)