Two days ago, I was chatting with my sister and when I said the word "", she asked me with her big innocent eyes what it meant. I told her it meant "neither boy nor girl". Most of the words we used to curse people when we were young were to say boys were neither boy nor girl. She nodded and said, in our generation, we probably say "mother" or "mother is handsome".
I can't help but sigh at the horror of time. In just 10 years, this kind of unique vocabulary that has been passed down for a long time will disappear. I have never heard this word in Mandarin, only in dialects. I don't know if it is right to write it this way. Fortunately, this is not the topic.
The story "Er Yizi of Our Family" is a story about gender, ideals, career, and feelings. The protagonist Yan Xiu is a person whose biological gender is neither male nor female for a long time, that is, a eunuch, or what we modern people often call a eunuch. Before becoming an eunuch, Yan Xiu served as a prince for a period of time. At that time, he was an out-and-out man. What about before? He is still she, a white-collar worker living in the city, a very feminine woman. When he was a woman, she hated her own gender due to family reasons, while at the same time making herself extremely "female"; when she was a man, he felt the rare pleasure of gender privilege, and it became natural for him to "love women"; when he was forced to become the third gender, he disliked, accepted, looked down upon, and was proud of his own gender. At the same time, he saw his own ideals, his own responsibilities, and his own feelings clearly, and finally was able to say this sentence in front of the world: "Our second son"...
Concept: gender, ideals and love