Growing Up Gay vs Lesbian in Japan

confessions of a mask by Yukio Mishima Growing up gay in Japan: -I wish to die every day but I do not have to power to kill myself -The dread of responsibility as a man and its conflict with my true identity is tearing me down from the inside -My violent sexual fantasies filled with blood and gore are my only place of refuge from the pressure of my family and peers My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Story & art by Nagata Kabi Growing up lesbian in Japan: -Ugh I'm such a girlfailure lol -Finding a job is so harddd -I had sex with a prostitute in a love hotel she was so nice haha -I had to work a 9 to 5 -You should really feel sorry for me

A split meme contrasts growing up gay in Japan through the bleak, anguished writing of Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask with growing up lesbian in Japan through Nagata Kabi’s comedic autobiographical manga My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between dramatic existential suffering and mundane, self-deprecating adult problems, making it useful as an ironic reaction to someone complaining about relatively ordinary hardships.

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