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Goodbye watashi. Hello boku! “…Nakamura Momoko, a professor emeritus at Kanto Gakuin University and Japan’s leading scholar on language and gender, argues there’s a deeper dynamic at play. Boys, she says, will transition from “boku” to “ore” to armor themselves against male hierarchies. Girls, by contrast, switch from “watashi” to “boku” to escape the vulnerabilities tied to femininity, including unwanted sexualization.“ #Japan #japanese #language https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-girls-boku-pronoun/