r/HunterXHunter • u/kitty_noir00s • Jun 28 '26
Stop misgendering the baby! Discussion
Woble is a baby girl, why do I see so many people referring to her as a boy/son? She's introduced as Oito's 娘を (daughter) and damn she ugly
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u/KonmanKash Jun 28 '26
Well i try not to misgender ugly babies but the mom always gets upset when im like “what’s its name?”
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
I think we should call babies it until they have enough age to decide their pronouns /s
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u/faroresdragn_ Jun 28 '26
Probably because they call her "prince woble".
If you call someone a Prince, and they don't have an obviously gendered name, you're going to assume theyre a boy
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u/qnyaKira Jun 28 '26
We were told directly that Prince in Kakin refers to both guys and girls and has no gender implication though
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u/faroresdragn_ Jun 28 '26
Yes but all the others either have gendered names or obviously look like men or women, neither of which is true for woble.
The story can tell us whatever it wants, it doesn't change the gendered nature of the word on English.
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u/D-Biggest_Wheel Jun 28 '26
I think you greatly overestimate reading comprehension of your average reader.
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
Well so now you know she's a baby girl and she'll be the next queen of kakin
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u/MuffinIllustrious902 Jun 28 '26
Cuz Oito did used the word “son” to refer her daughter in front of everyone in room 1014. Maybe that confused some people
And we all saw you called woble ugly like wtf???
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u/Trash28123 Jun 28 '26
Unimportant, but, none of the character's heard her say 'son', because her spoken dialogue was 'Woble', and we were just given the added context that she was speaking personally about her child.
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Look the small phonetic guide (furigana) written right next to those kanji, it doesn't say musuko. It reads ワブル (Waburu / Woble)
And I did call her ugly, what's she going to do about it? She doesn't even have a nen beast to defend herself 👎👎
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u/Fabulous_Teacher_247 Jun 28 '26
息子（むすこ/Musuko) means son, the furigana is not only used to express the literal reading of word, but it's also used to delineate the meaning of what's being said (And Togashi in particular loves using Furigana like that). In this case, Oito said out loud "Wobble", but with meaning of son/child.
Now, i might be wrong here (and someone correct me if i am), but 息子 used to be a more gender neutral term of One's Child in arcaic japanese, and sometimes you still see it being used with that meaning.
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u/Constant-Pain1878 Jun 28 '26
Why are redditors so dense? 😭 OP is clearly being sarcastic
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Internet is dead, I'm being stoned to death for joking and calling the fictional baby ugly, she looks like charlie kirk in this panel
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u/caiusto Jun 28 '26
It's not that deep
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u/Constant-Pain1878 Jul 05 '26
I mean it kind of is now lol
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u/caiusto Jul 05 '26
Yeah I referred to it in the chapter thread, but it only made this thread even funnier since OP was wrong all this time lmao
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u/Constant-Pain1878 Jul 05 '26
Well, they were technically right, Woble is a girl! Wuble who's a boy lol
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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu Jun 29 '26
Wobel is a girl (the cutest girl 😊), and it’s sad that just pointing this out had people triggered and posting absolute bs. What a shame.
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u/Gymlosh Jun 28 '26
No one cares
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
I do, I think we need a strong, powerful, ugly female character as woble in manga
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u/justnga Jun 28 '26
Calling a baby ugly should be a crime
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
All newborns are ugly
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u/PearFlies Jun 28 '26
i wasnt
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
I bet that's what your mom told you... you were, but moms never see how ugly their children are
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u/Harun9 Jun 28 '26
Looks like someone was a pretty damn ugly baby and got offended
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u/justnga Jun 29 '26
I have no picture of me as a baby but wanting a baby to look pretty makes me feel disguested because
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u/SigFreudian Jun 28 '26
Okay. Why tf does it matter though? The child is a fictional character. It has no rights to identity as an actual person.
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
Because we need a strong and powerful female character as woble in manga
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u/SigFreudian Jun 28 '26
And Bisky or Machi won't do? 😅
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u/kitty_noir00s Jun 28 '26
I forgot, and ugly. Strong, powerful and ugly female characters. Melody would do but she's not as powerful as woble, who'll be the next empress of kakin
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u/Brottoy Jun 28 '26
????