“Excuse Me,Who Are You?”: Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi

“Excuse Me,Who Are You?”: Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi
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“Excuse Me,Who Are You?”: Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi
The author’s main points revolve around the peculiarity of how females are depicted in Kon Satoshi’s work, as well as the concept of the “bisexual gaze” where both male and female perceptions are equally important and equally strong. The author claims that the inherent open-ended ambiguity in Satoshi’s work stirs some kind of liberating experience that frees people or readers from common, traditional points of views regarding sex.
The first thing I found interesting was actually Kon Satoshi’s statement in the beginning of the chapter, where he said that it is easier to writer about female protagonists because one can project his own obsessio...