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Fact Checking Spirit Lore
Okay do not attack me I just want to let everyone know that I'm not sexist I'm just basing this off facts. So we know that Rin is Japanese and that most likely her family is Confucius. If you don't know what Confucianism is let me tell you, it's basically a Japanese philosophy of the five relationships. These relationships are emperor-servant, Husband-Wife, Older Bro- Younger Bro and Friend-Friend. As you can tell from the relationships this philosophy is very patriarchal. In a Confucius society, Women were only useful for cooking and giving babies and that's it. so what I'm confused about the spirit lore is why would her father make her do a man's job? because the samurai is only for men when you think about it, in the Confucian society I mean. So it went really make sense that her father would make her practice the way of the sword when Rin is a female. so it kind of doesn't really make sense to me if the yamaokas were very Confucian. Honestly it would make more sense if her parents were reminding her to found a good husband or something. I know I'm taking this way too seriously but it didn't make sense to me.
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*puts on history nerd glasses*
So Confusianism is Chinese and Japan didn't take ALL aspects of it, only the bits they liked. And while Japanese society was very patriarchal, it has never really been as patriarchal as Chinese society. And historically, there is a long tradition of Onna-Bugeisha, the female equivalent of samurai. Additionally, Japanese society has changed a lot since the heyday of the samurai. Given that Rin wore a baseball cap, she almost certainly lived after WWII, meaning that Japan was democratized and women's rights were expanded.
So between the precedent of Onna-Bugeisha and the role of women in postwar Japan, it's not surprising Rin's father wanted her to carry on the family tradition. This is especially true if Rin had no brother, which we have no reason to believe she does.
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Oh No! I am so dumb, I forgot that Confucianism with a Chinese thing I am so dumb thank you for like fact-checking my fact check. Now this whole post is irrelevant I am so dumb
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It's okay XD there were probably a lot of other people wondering why Rin's father wanted her to learn to use a sword, and hopefully they learned something!
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I mean, it was said straight that father wanted her to be a part of the Yamaoka lineage.
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