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Splendid!! Your disguise is so flawless that [[Attractive Bent Gender|you are even more beautiful than the average woman]], so much so that you become a [[Chick Magnet]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|(to girls AND boys)]], and so [[Yamato Nadeshiko|refined in manner]] they would never suspect you were ever a man, right?
Splendid!! Your disguise is so flawless that [[Attractive Bent Gender|you are even more beautiful than the average woman]], so much so that you become a [[Chick Magnet]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|(to girls AND boys)]], and so [[Yamato Nadeshiko|refined in manner]] they would never suspect you were ever a man, right?


Unfortunately, being a [[Hot Blooded]] young male all your life has habitually hard-wired your vocabulary to use the masculine pronoun of ''"[[Japanese Pronouns|Ore]]"'' to refer to yourself, something that an everyday girl (who uses ''watashi'', the polite gender-neutral pronoun) or even an upbeat and immature [[Genki Girl]] (who uses ''atashi'', the informal-feminine pronoun, or if extreme ''boku'', a boyish one) would never be caught ''dead'' doing.
Unfortunately, being a [[Hot-Blooded]] young male all your life has habitually hard-wired your vocabulary to use the masculine pronoun of ''"[[Japanese Pronouns|Ore]]"'' to refer to yourself, something that an everyday girl (who uses ''watashi'', the polite gender-neutral pronoun) or even an upbeat and immature [[Genki Girl]] (who uses ''atashi'', the informal-feminine pronoun, or if extreme ''boku'', a boyish one) would never be caught ''dead'' doing.


Cue a hurried and panicked attempt to correct yourself mid-sentence, which thanks to the [[Rule of Funny]], almost always keeps the cover from being blown.
Cue a hurried and panicked attempt to correct yourself mid-sentence, which thanks to the [[Rule of Funny]], almost always keeps the cover from being blown.
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[[Category:Gender Vocabulary Slip]]
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