A while back usagijen posted on Kure-nai about a scene that launched me into a mini rage-filled comment (similar to my recent one on Toshokan Sensou 6). Now, what was interesting to me was her eventual response to it:

YEA, I GO… girl?

The funny thing is, I don’t ever recall discussing my gender over the blogosphere since one of the things I naively tend to think is that it really shouldn’t matter what ones chromosomes are when it comes to discussing the animu and whatnot. You know, besides determining what type of stereotypes you’re expected to conform to/break of course. So being a male blogger probably means you have “fap fap fap” plastered on a good number of your posts, while being female probably means fangirl rage is a typical recurrence on yours. (Hence why usagijen automatically assumed – correctly?- that I’m a girl) But seriously, do any of these ‘distinctions’ matter really?

Oh wait, silly me, apparently they do.

So there’s this all female blogger round-robin thing going on, with the purpose of strengthening sisterly bonds with all the female bloggers out there in this crassly male dominated otakusphere. Spearheaded by itsubun, sasa, and usagijen, it is in hopes that all bloggers of the fairer gender consider being a part of this endeavour to emasculate the blogosphere once and or all!. Personally, I do like the idea of the Female Bloggers of the Rebellion because I tend to have a raving feminist streak myself (plus this collaboration would have almost zero chances of being termed a ‘circlejerk’ XD )

In fact, I’m quite eager to join myself, why usagijen has even stated in a comment that she hopes I’ll hop on the bandwagon:

And honestly, I’d be honoured to… but there’s one problem, jen:

How sure are you that I’m qualified gender-wise?

Just for fun (warning: everything I’ve said thus far has been truthful, but I give no such guarantee for anything from this point onwards), here are some points to consider:

1) This is how my bookshelf (well, the part of it that’s actually holding books now) looks like currently. Since I’m a frugal bastard (bitch?), besides the crack English book which I got from my friends (really, it’s a hoot XD), everything you see there I got at second hand bookstores/flea markets or got free from the recycling centre etc. which explains the incompleteness of the sets (NANA’s still ongoing, of course, but it’s going to take me a while to read these 15 volumes anyhow).

(And ohbtw, saving up for the entire Fruits Basket manga series next)

2) A teaser for posts to come:

-The Magic of Siscon Hatsunejima
-So I finally finished watching… Kyou Kara Maou (Seasons 1 & 2)
-So I finally got round to watching: Aka-chan to Boku
-An Overdue Overview on OoFuri
-There’s something about Watarase Jun…
-Mizuki Nana and Why Allison & Lillia is Awesome
-Allison & Lillia and Why Mizuki Nana is Awesome
-Why Everyone Should Watch Animal Yokocho

Btw, only one of those was made up for the sake of this post

3) The actual Issa on Animal Yokocho is male.

Well, at least I think he is. It’s hard to tell with animals that don’t wear pants.

4) I watched true tears and Clannad because they had cute girls and girls love cute things!!

(I watched Air because it had dinosaurs.)

5) Read the first (and then the second) point of this post on Furu Anime Panikku. Now consider the (sad) truth that this blog has never gained more than 200 views in a day before T_T

If it’s also a matter of interest, the most viewed posts on this blog so far:
Surprise, surprise…


6) If you subscribe to the yuri is for guys and yaoi for girls stereotype, then note that both Nagato and I blog Junjou Romantica (Taiyaki too, while I’m at it. I’ve stopped doing it on a regular basis though, and Are-Are gets more hits than I’ll ever hope to achieve). Is that an ‘ahah’ enough for you? But let’s add this blog and this blog into the equation (though they’re manga focused). See, the bigger picture?

(Also, let’s not forget a TRUE MAN who dares to do hardcore MAN ON MAN posts XD)

7) Finally (and probably the only most useful point): Why would I even bother with this post if was actually a girl? ;D

Confused? So am I.

(Perhaps like Nagato, I’m really just reluctant to participate in something that might ruin the ‘mystery’ of my true gender in real life… Why, half my regular readers (all two of you) will probably never come here ever again once they find out that I’m actually…)

In conclusion, let’s just say that there’s a part of me that’s very ready to join the round-robin thingy, but part of me that’s very afraid of Hinano’s (and now their fearsome gatekeeper blissmo XD) threat against those attempting to infiltrate the sisterhood XD Now as far as I can gather, the gender-confused do not seem welcome in the group currently (bummer), but whatever you girls decide to write on in the future, don’t be surprised if this little panda starts ripping you all off following suit to add my own 2 cents’ worth on the subject(s) – since I always seem to be at a loss at what to write that isn’t these lame crack posts anyways =P