Yeah, but if Athena were, like, a real person, she'd be rather muscular, I wager. (She is depicted with a helmet, usually, being a goddess of warfare so ....)

Clashes a bit with their "uwu, I'm a weak little lady" shtick.

But, I don't think they know even what, exactly, Athena is the godess of. 🤔

(She is also one of the virgin goddesses, when I've never encountered a TIM who had any inclination to be chaste, lol)

Edited to add: Admittedly, thinking about it, there might be quite a few virginal TIMs.

The difference here being that the ancient goddesses defended their virginity, while the TIMs try very, very hard to lose it.

Does that character have a different name in Japanese?

Asking because the English 'L' sound is notoriously tongue-twisty for the Japanese, who usually end up pronouncing it more like 'R'.
In fact, there is no native Japanese 'L' sound at all. (Try scrolling over Japan in Your phone's maps program and seeing whether You can find a single name anywhere with the letter L in it.)

I know a Woman named Laurel who married a hapa (Japanese + White) #boy, and the Japanese contingent of Her in-laws cannot pronounce Her name to save their lives😅. Poor Laurel becomes something like "ra-ru-ru"... where my overall point is, I don't think "Lily" would fare much better. "Reeree" maybe ahahaha.

Your Friend,
Rip-shi

Gross! Like clockwork lol

God wouldn't that be nice

I don’t even have to imagine; I already know. :( I’ve known many similarly unattractive women and overweight women who receive such terrible abuse or mistreatment from men in everyday interactions! It’s brutal. I used to be obese/overweight myself for much of my life and at my highest weight (~160-ish lbs), I was treated as subhuman. I’ve had friends who were at much bigger weights and my heart breaks at thinking about the mistreatment that many of them must’ve gone through, as it must’ve been much worse. I’m lucky enough that at my height and with the plainer way that I dress, I was still able to go unnoticed by many of the bullies back when I was obese. I remember one friend actually teared up when talking about the sort of cruel treatment they received so we changed the conversation topic, as it was just too sad and awkward for both of us to talk about. That sort of degradation and humiliating treatment really sticks with you!

Absolutely! I believe that most accusations of transphobia is simply them discovering, for the very first time, just how much scorn the world has for you as an ugly woman. Real women, as we know, live blessed lives, are loved and desired by everyone, and get everything they want. Women who don't live like that don't even exist in their minds. Hence, if they're not fawned all over, the problem is definitely with society not recognizing them as a "real woman".

They are incredibly fortunate that most everyone bites their tongue around them. The women who aren't real would kill for that.

She certainly would not be gaming with any of them

Yeah, I respect that! I’m sure that if/when I eventually have children one day, I may feel similarly to you! I know that there’s plenty of women who would not want to be a man, women who are grateful to be women because of positive experiences such as being a mother/grandmother/daughter/sister/wife, and women who have no opinion on what biological sex they were born as, because it’s just a neutral immutable biological fact to them that one is born either female or male, and regardless one has to make the best of it.

But I think many of us who actively hate being born a woman or wish that we had been born men have legitimate reasons to feel that way. It’s usually a result of bad experiences that have been made us hyperaware of our bodies and our biological sex (whether it’s sexism, discrimination, limited career mobility, rape, assault, abuse, experiences of being overpowered by males or being talked down and condescended to, etc).

The only way to reduce the number of women who hate being women is for society to make more efforts to acknowledge women as human beings who are allowed to have rights and opinions. Stuff like getting abortion rights taken away reinforces to some of these abused women and girls that they are the lesser beings that society has always told them they are.

If you grow up seeing all these subliminal messages that women are worth less than men, that boys are worth more than girls, that individual female achievements are meaningless because men have collectively achieved more anyway, that women aren’t allowed to say no to men (such as the TIMs in women’s bathrooms issue), it’s pretty natural for some girls to decide that they don’t want to be female though.

I think it's partially that, but also the effect of an all-consuming sex-addiction. It would explain why they both persist in escalating behavior that makes them miserable and alienates other people in their lives, but also frequently complain about how hard and miserable their lives are.