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First-Person Pronouns: When Female Speakers Use 僕 or 俺

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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Is It Enemy of Men?

i wonder if it's envy of men, or if it's more like not wanting to have to fulfil a kind of like subordinate role as a woman. The sense i got from the girls that i knew, the middle school aged girls who used boku, they were kind of like, i don't want to have to be cude. Maybe there's that too, like enviers. Boters differetly, thoughtto, no wanting to feel it, feel feeling tos,. I guess it's kind of expectation, a baking expectations, purposely, raiwayr aders, diffinitly, that too. One point two % of japanese junior high school students

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