Atsushi Sakurai: Well, I guess I want to transcend gender. It’s part of the job. The moment I get embarrassed about this kind of thing, I’m finished…But I think it’s only recently that I’ve really become able to get pumped up about it like I do now. It’s become more fun for me, too. I feel like I’m transforming into something else.
Interviewer: I suppose your image is similar to David Bowie’s bisexuality. Or maybe it’s a more Japanese image of femininity.
AS: Yeah. …I think it’s more Japanese style. Bowie’s calculated androgyny was certainly surprising as a work of art, but when I act a role for myself, it’s the refined femininity of ancient Japan, but with power. That’s what I become. In fact, I have a number of friends and acquaintances like that. Men, but with women’s souls, something like that. When I look at people like them, I think… “it suits them so naturally,” or “I quite like this.” They also seem very gentle to me…I suppose I have a bit of that element or quality myself. When I was a child, I felt more comfortable playing with girls. Even now I sometimes get told that I’m “feminine.”
Interviewer: If you went down that path, do you think you could love a man?
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GRADE SCHOOL SJWS stop using social justice language to explain shit to your conservative parents IT’S NOT GONNA GO THROUGH now all they have are some new words to make fun of. don’t tell your mom she’s being fatphobic tell her she’s being a dick
