Comment on Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk)
Voyajer@lemmy.world 3 months agoShe has a video explaining how she became the way she is that address that. Iirc she was raised as a boy by her parents which was a major contributing factor.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That might explain the ridiculous boobs, but not why she still chooses to wear incredibly skimpy outfits in her videos.
Chriswild@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because it’s her body and she can do whatever she wants with it.
Steve@communick.news 3 months ago
Being able isn’t a reason to actually do something.
A reason would be “Because I feel like it”
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Actually “because I feel like it” is a good enough reason to give a stranger.
bear@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
“Because I feel like it.”
So in other words, because she wants to? As in, “because it’s her body and she can do whatever she wants with it”?
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yes and?
jak@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
It actually does. It’s a forty minute video and it was worth it for me, who had never heard of her and doesn’t care about tech at all (sorry lemmy).
Tl;dw: imagine a woman talking about how Freddy mercury’s chest hair makes her uncomfortable because she thinks he’s peacocking for her. That’s you. It’s initially very understandable- you saw something with one known cultural marker and assumed it tracked, I did too. It’s just not the same cultural marker (just like a Chinese person without much international sixty years ago would probably have a very different assumption when looking at a picture of a woman in a western wedding dress).
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I watched the video, it’s unconvincing. I don’t think she’s lying per se, just that her justification for doing all her videos wearing skimpy clothing is pretty thin. She says she’s doing it because she’s a “dee”, but in the videos she shows, she’s the only one who looks remotely like that. She shows herself walking her dog in fairly normal clothing, but claims she can’t do that on her videos. She thinks that unless she’s wearing absolutely skimpy clothing that someone’s going to mistake her for a boy. Sure…
jak@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
For me, the imagery of hyper masculine leather daddies was a eureka moment (what a fucking sentence). I don’t think they’re doing it to be ‘marketable’ to women or men (on an immediately, trying to attract someone that day basis), it seems much more obviously just a style thing.
Plus, she’s right that she’d make more money with smaller breasts- a C-cup on her frame would probably appeal to more men, while looking natural enough that people like you might be interested in sharing her videos with others. I can’t imagine that’s new information for her (YouTube comments sections are not the most tactful places), so she probably would have tailored her look to appeal to more men over time, if that was her goal.
I don’t think that’s likely at all, but I do believe her brain whispers that to her until she stops treating herself well. Mainly because truth is stranger than fiction- a 160 cm tall person (even in the most southern part of china, men’s average height is 168-170 cm) who has very long hair, shallowly set eyes, narrow shoulders, a high pitched voice and zero facial hair is not plausibly going to be mistaken for a man on a regular basis. That would be such a 4 year old lie to make up. Maybe she’s betting on that and it’s a ruse, but that’s a risky move if anyone who knows anything about Thai queer culture can out your lie.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I don’t know if it’s in that video or a separate video, but she did talk about it in a specific video, and the short of it is, she was raised as a boy by her family and it messed her up for many years. Like, to the point where the trans community has adopted her to some degree for having had a similar experience to their experiences with gender dysphoria and other related psychological issues. So her dressing and looking like that is in part her embracing her feminity and the fact that she’s a woman. Kinda like that stereotype of the gay guy who comes out of the closet and starts acting “fruity” or whatever the term is. Or the trans woman who has a pigtails and overalls phase like having the childhood they never got to experience the first time.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
She does, in fact, explain it.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
She really doesn’t. She claims that because she’s a “dee” she has to look like that, but in her videos with other “dees”, she’s the only one who looks remotely like that.