she probably said 好き (suki), which is “to like”. Japanese can omit the subject and object of a sentence if they’re known from context, leaving loads of room for ambiguity in times like this. On its own, the implicit subject is “I” and the implicit object is going to either be the topic of...
there’s no way of knowing what Heidi’s deal is just yet. It’s totally plausible that dating a trans women is in itself seen as making a man gay in Japan, and therefore needing coming out about. Heck, it’s like that in a lot of the anglosphere. Plus we don’t know if the author really understands...
what gets me about this is that it’s set in a society that you’d get if you took our current society and changed that one thing, not in a society that would happen if that was how things had been the whole time. I don’t think we’d consider things to be nearly so gendered if it was something you...
I’m reminded of when the media tried to make a huge fuss of Hugh Grant being seen getting into a cab with a sex worker. He went on TV and was like “yep! pretty cool huh” and that was the end of that