
is it really that inconceivable to think of two men as two husbands? fucking disgusting and sexist

i don’t know much, but in some languages, the word “wife” transcends gender or, in some cases, the word “wife” is the closest but is still not an entirely accurate translation of the term originally used. a lot of cultures have different interpretations of the words wife and husband. i haven’t read this manga’s raws, though, so i can’t really tell, but do remember that not all writers or mangakas are aware/many of them have very different definitions of the words that we know.

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In my country there is no word for husband or wife nor we have a pronoun like he/her. We use a common gender neutral term.
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ I've read a lot of Chinese novel and like ours they use the same word to say he/she, so sometimes you can read titles with wives (especially if you MTL) but it's yaoi. I hope that OP considered the fact that this was translated from a different language.
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I wasn't even shaming you. I was making a point. You're the one who assumed I was at first and got defensive. Also as someone in the LGBTQ+ community many couples in same sex relationships will refer to other as husband and wife interchangeably.
Also you seem to misunderstand the Freedom of Speech thing. Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom from consequences. You express your views someone is free to counter it. Freedom of Speech does not mean Freedom from consequences. If it did there wouldn't be laws against hate speech.

> Some people need to remember demand a different language change to fit what you believe is right is extremely Xenophobic and Racist.
You're right, this was totally not a personal attack. Imagine resorting to lying in order to win an argument on the internet, calling people racist for calling out sexist/htereonormative notions in different languages. I'm out.

but he's 39 and he fucked a kid a third his age? fucking pedo

I don't think Dai's class level is given, so it shall be between 16 and 18, half of which is respectively 32 and 36 so more like half his age.
I am not that shocked because... the president of my country (France) literally met his wife when they had that sort of age gap (he was 17 she was around 35-40) so haha it just doesn't really shock me ^^'
(Well my president is bad for other reasons like his climate policy is absolutely not as good as he says it is and he represses demonstrators and leads a bad economic policy for our public services, but, all that to say that it's not a point that was really discussed during his electoral campaign French people just weren't really preoccupied by it)

I have this French law https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/278212-loi-21-avril-2021-violences-sexuelles-sur-mineurs-et-inceste (you can translate with DeepL) the article which presents and explains the law says:
"No adult can rely on the sexual consent of a child under the age of 15, or under the age of 18 in cases of incest."
original version "Aucun adulte ne peut se prévaloir du consentement sexuel d'un enfant s'il a moins de 15 ans, ou moins de 18 ans en cas d'inceste."

(complementary information)
The crime of rape was first defined in 1980. According to the penal code, it is "any act of sexual penetration of any kind, committed on the person of another, by violence, constraint or surprise".
(original version : Le crime de viol a été défini pour la première fois en 1980. Selon le code pénal, il s'agit de "tout acte de peÌneÌtration sexuelle de quelque nature qu'il soit, commis sur la personne d'autrui, par violence, contrainte ou surprise")
source https://www.vie-publique.fr/en-bref/19859-24-recommandations-pour-lutter-contre-le-viol

In the situation of this manga there is no incest thus the age limit that applies is illegal "under 15" not "under 18". The character is at least 15years old, and most likely 17 or 18 years old if as Antiso_ny says he is in his last year of high school, and supposing he didn't skip a class.
The main character and male lead do act of sexual penetration, but none is committed by violence, constraint or surprise.
Therefore, what happened between those two characters is not rape.
It is legally defined, under French law, as consensual.
(of course French law isn't the law that shall be applied here, but it's an example from a developed country, as it was asked by Indian Fuji, that is quite representative of other similar countries and isn't criticised by European law and human right watchers either)

I wrote this long-ass answer because I do wish to bring real world issues into fiction.
Thus I explained why here, the situation between the two main characters isn't rape because consent is properly qualified.
PS : consent is sexy and precious, I really appreciate that fujoshi fudanshi yaoi-readers and authors are caring more about this than before, because rape culture is a problem and fiction isn't 100% neutral people read it so it affects reality
any idea?