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Hey now i wasn't saying there was no gender allegory, just where to find an argument for sqqs queer gender since it wasn't obvious anywhere in the text, and im still not entirely convinced by the argument "he mentions castration several times". Svsss totally addresses gender and casts sqq and lbh in feminine roles at different points of the story; that just doesn't directly wire into the endless puzzle box that is sqqs mind. Social or literary role is a different thing. I'm also not ragging on gender queer or trans sqq hcs but it seems a bit much to say he is definitely one or the other. You could also argue mbj is feminine coded because he wears black and devours his father and sha hualing is a trans man or nb because they seek to dominate their partners and their gender performance is so hypersexualised to compensate. I mean, sure! Fuck that's interesting! But other readings, it must be said, are also valid.

Ok yes sorry I understood what you meant in the first ask I was just simplifying it in an unrelated joke for the sake of comedy and because I was up until midnight last night assembling IKEA furniture.

Did you read the whole section I said might help though? The first phallus chapter is mainly focused on castration but I pointed towards the second chapter because it includes more generalized discussion that I personally think paints a more consistent picture of repetitive mentioning. Even beyond positioning himself as the "woman" (literary role) in his relationship, sqq repeatedly compares himself and his experiences to women in a very frank way-- I believe this is most obvious by his comparison of his pain to period cramps, but there's also the significance of the Skinner mission featuring a demon which is described as an originally male demon that wears female skins but yearns for another male skin (Shen Qingqiu's). You could argue this is just a reflection of transphobia in the story but I do think it's interesting to note that this is sqq's first mission, and comes during a period of time that he still clearly believes himself to be a man (Shen Yuan) wearing another's skin (original Shen Qingqiu's). And of course he continues to project his own feelings onto the female characters around him, which you could argue is due to his literary role becoming that of a female love interest's, but a point that I find particularly interesting is that he also compares himself to Binghe's mother completely unprovoked, something that easily (maybe even more easily) could've been substituted for a male comparison for him using Confucian values of the teacher/student relationship relating to that of a father and son. Instead, he becomes the mother.

Umm I'm not totally sure what you're intending to say with the demon argument or references, I'm sorry. If you or anyone else would like to elaborate on the meaning I'd be glad to respond but for now I'll just leave it how it is.

Of course all readings of the text are valid, hell I don't even hc sqq as trans most of the time unlike mbj or other characters I talk about, but I just think it's a funny concept that there's so much serious and progressive queer discourse surrounding a satirical parody of a male power fantasy novel written 7 years ago. Sorry if this sounds accusatory in any way, I truly didn't mean to make fun of you for asking an innocent question about the analysis and I hope this sets some things straight about what I was trying to say

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