Not having knowledge is simple be informed and that’s it. People “attack” you for not having enough respect to show basic decency of not misgendering someone.
The problem is not that every time you say this, people “attack” you for supposedly not having a certain knowledge. … so you know the earth is round, but you keep saying it’s flat? What I am trying to say is that before a transwoman can be considered effective in challenging any female stereotype, a transwoman first needs to not be considered a joke… and we’re not there yet… Japan certainly isn’t! Kuroshitsuji Black Butler Transgender LGBT Grell sutcliff grelle sutcliff stereotype Kutoo Make up If a transwoman doesn’t care about her face, “then it’s because he’s actually a man” or because “she’s weird anyway.” Of course transwomen are not lesser women, but before transwomen can be considered as “““normal””” as ciswomen are, I am afraid that they cannot be much help in challenging social expectations for womanhood. At the beginning Grell really fit the queer comic relief like a hand in a custom-made glove… Grell too was not supposed to fulfill any other purpose than being HILARIOUS. It is a long-standing joke that people who are very vain are apparently very funny, and especially when a male-coded person does it, it is “HILARIOUS”.
The issue you bring up is an incredibly big one and too complex still. Not wearing make-up in public is a sign that this woman is unwilling to be a responsible adult, or that she can’t distinguish ‘public’ from ‘private’. In Japan a woman doesn’t necessarily care about her face as much as she cares that other people care… do you know what I mean? Japan is so obsessed with the appearance of women that there are company rules that oblige women to wear high heels (which then sparked the KuToo movement.) In Japan it is almost considered ‘rude’ for adult women to not wear make-up in public. The end goal of womanhood is to attract a man, marry said man and get sons, after all. Obviously women are not born to care more, but everyone socialised as a woman would be subjected to the constant (peer) pressure to care about their physical appearance. As for the perpetuation of the stereotype of women caring more about their face than other people do… well, in Japan it is not really a ‘stereotype’.
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