@zeltrax225:
Read my link and understand the whole point of the damn post before you are trigger happy.
There was no link when I replied to you [emoji23] Funny how you're calling me trigger happy, keep the irony up
@zeltrax225:
Link
Oh, you're basing it off of Artur. Well, I will rather adhere to Greg's input and background knowledge on the matter than what an overrated third party columnist has to say
@zeltrax225:
You're right, it's was a bad use of words and framing which obviously wasn't proofread by myself a few times which is foolish considering the thin ice we are on. It's wrong to say she identify as one, but she is one.
Again, I don't know anyone who doubted that Yamato's sex is female when his intro box said "Kaido's daughter". The point of contention has always been what the extent of his choice to be a man is, if he wishes to reject his female body, if it's just a simple "Oden = man, me = Oden, ergo me = man" that doesn't go any deeper than that, what pronouns to use. None of that got cleared up with the Vivre Card, or as Greg said: nothing changed.
@zeltrax225:
Luffy is factually male, is anatomically male, is stated a thousand times over by the author that he acts and behave as a male, but I have to reserve my judgement until he identifies as a straight male else it is a pandora box.
You're exaggerating.
@zeltrax225:
Is he, might he even be asexual? I might never know because clearly he has to identify himself as one for me to make any reliable inference else everything I say is a misconception.
It's a misconception that gender dysphoria and sexuality are the same. They're two separate things even if they can correlate.
@zeltrax225:
Either way, I've read Greg's post and although I do agree with a large portion of it from a storytelling aspect, the vivre card do have significance because Oda did deliberately went out of his way to name Mr 2 and Ivankov as Okama. There's also Captain M's post which makes a lot more sense. But none of that really matters when Oda, the very author's intention behind the databook is to not have Yamato's gender be anything else except female.
I don't understand what is there to debate upon when the creator behind the character confirmed that Yamato is a straight female leaving no room for ambiguity.
Did you read Greg's post though? Because he clearly said
How about the validity of Vivre Cards? They've been wrong before. Some have been suggesting that amateur columnist Artur said Oda approves all cards. Dunno if Artur said that but as someone whose name is actually on those Vivre Cards that you buy, I can tell you that Oda does not sit there at his desk constructing each card's data. The cards are designed and constructed by an outside promotional company. Yes, as author Oda signs off on them but that doesn't mean he fact checks every card. He doesn't have that kind of time.
While you still sell it as a fact that Oda actively chose not to add any more explanations about Yamato's sex/gender.
@zeltrax225:
This are official releases with the very intent of informing and being factual. This isn't a sabo scenario, there's no storytelling trick to be pulled.
There doesn't have to be a storytelling trick for people to simply make mistakes.
@zeltrax225:
There's no need for denial because once the Oden persona is dropped, the chances of Yamato being a transgender is significantly and almost certainly lesser than if she is to affirm to her female role.
First, I think the fewest people were in denial about Yamato's female body. Second, if Yamato drops the Oden persona the chances of Yamato being transgender will decrease. In that case, once that happens we can still reevaluate the choice of pronouns for him without invalidating whatever we were using before.
But just to reiterate my personal point of view: I never thought of Yamato as transgender but that still doesn't mean I can't respect his choice to be called Kaido's son or go by he/him. Choosing gendered labels isn't something that should be limited to a certain group of people.