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Tea_4_thee t1_ixvhnoc wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Convenient Store Woman by Sayaka Murata by NotBorris

No, I wouldn’t consider traditional gender norms (oppression) to be the type of ‘rules’ (I don’t think that can even be considered a rule) that ASPD diagnostic criteria is referring to. If that was the case the entire feminist movement would check that box.

Even if those were the types of rules that the diagnostic criteria was referring to Keiko does not disregard those rules. She doesn’t understand them but she doesn’t disregard them either. she tries very hard to follow those rules. So hard she lets a random man take over her apartment in an attempt to follow those rules.

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Tea_4_thee t1_ixvp2cl wrote

Yes that is mostly what I was responding to, you included it in your interpretation so I don’t think it should be surprising that somebody may have thoughts about that part of your interpretation.

>she also never cares about social norms, she only does those things to get people off her back so she can live quietly

That wasn’t my interpretation, if that was the case I don’t think Keiko would frequently seek out her sisters counsel which results in attracting more attention to her ‘weird’ habits. Regardless I don’t think social norms and rules can be considered the same thing. Of course everybody will look at things differently that’s just the nature of discussing books. I just don’t think she could be considered a sociopath, she doesn’t present the key symptoms (irritability, manipulation, risk taking behavior, arrogance, hostility, etc.) and that was my main point.

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