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[From Kotonoha]:Ichiko Izumiya is a young student of English who would like to walk in the footsteps...
This is an amazing piece of queer media. It's so realistic and insightful. Also makes you slowly open up to a lot of ideas, makes you think and very wholesome in it's own way. I always believed that being a lesbian is freeing somehow in this day and age. Since misogyny, sexism, male gaze and every attempt from the patriarchal society to put women in a box feels very suffocating and foreign in your own body.
You have to look sexy in order to be desirable and sexy is defined by what men prefer in someone who they find breedable. But you also can't be too outworldy sensual because then you're not deserving of respect as a human being because you are unable to confine your sensuality and project it towards your man. They want your personality to be for them. And of course I dont mean all men (before y'all come at me) I mean men as a whole in the society. You can't handpick humans to form a society, it forms itself. And what it has formed into is not safe, comfortable or even meant for women to live in. It is entirely for the good of men and their desires. So in that sense I feel like being in love with a woman can be cathartic. You have more chances of being and feeling seen and understood and accepted in a relationship with a woman than with a man. And although sone parts are true and other more glorifed and the rest exaggerated, you can't deny that this state of world isnt driving women to seek refuge among their own. Which made me insecure in my own sexuality and feel as if me being attracted to women is a coping mechanism for feeling like an alien in a society made by humans. Idk why but this manga made me feel very differently about this topic. It's like getting a new perspective. Highly recommend if you are questioning your sexuality.