My gender is ‘male-♂’
It is therefore difficult for me to understand ‘female’.
We can talk to people, we can understand them, we can listen to their voices on social networks,
but I believe that reading Mitsuyo Kakuta’s works is the best way to learn about women.
The first time I cried at a book in my life was when I was in junior high school.
It was a book called [The Eight-Day Cicada]
There is a ‘mother’ who kidnaps and a ‘daughter’ who is brought up by the kidnapper.
She can neither be a mother nor a daughter, but…
‘These human feelings, these complicated minds, are contained within them.
I thought, ‘That is human beings, and society is to live in harmony with them’.
Since then, Mitsuyo Kakuta has been my bible when I want to know how the opposite sex feels.
I’ve heard the word ‘gender’ a lot lately.
I feel that it is necessary to start from a more trivial point.
I feel that I have to start from a more trivial point of view.
What is gender without knowing the hardships,
joys and sorrows of housewives with children on their backs and shopping bags in their hands?
This is why I am going to read The Girl on the Other Shore this time.