My old buddy Lea Hernandez reports that she’s been interviewed for Suicide Girls. Her graphic novel Rumble Girls was great (and Tiptree material to boot.)
DRE: Manga and anime focuses a lot on switching genders. Why is that?
LH: If I was going to guess, based on what very little I know about Japan, I would say gender switching has a lot to do with the fact that they have a really regimented culture and society. That idea of getting to do something that’s not normally socially acceptable. For instance in Ranma one of the gags was that Ranma really liked these parfaits which is a very girly dessert. That was one of the times he liked being the girl because he could eat them without embarrassing himself and looking like a sissy.
And I thought that SG was just a bunch of pretend emo girls doing naughty pictures…. The interview’s work safe, but the site isn’t.
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