Talk:Matsuko Deluxe

Pronoun mistake
Matsuko is a cross-dressing male homosexual who identifies as male, not as a transgender woman. The proper pronouns are male pronouns, and edited major media articles about him in English use "he/him/his," as in this Washington Post piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/its-fine-to-be-gay-on-japanese-tv--if-youre-outlandish-and-outrageous/2015/03/24/b3c3ac00-ce77-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.223.131.115 (talk) 04:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I recognize the Washington Post article, but I find the male pronouns weird here. "Matsuko" the TV personality identifies as a woman: she dresses and talks as a woman, and has a woman's name. Matsuko is not the legal name of the man who assumes this persona, but he is essentially not a public figure outside of the Matsuko persona. I propose using female pronouns to refer to Matsuko while noting in the lead that the persona is assumed by a gay man, as we currently do later in the article. This is consistent with articles such as Nina West. -SpuriousQ (talk) 08:00, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The Nina West article states that it is the stage name of Andrew Robert Levitt, so shouldn't this article similarly say Matsuko Deluxe is the stage name of Takahiro Matsui? I think that would resolve the problem. Westwind273 (talk) 02:30, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Pronouns restored to the male. Matsuko refers to himself with the male pronoun "ore" as recorded in a TV interview in 2021.  https://sirabee.com/2021/05/02/20162568771/  An arbitrary change based on an editor's personal feeling seems inappropriate given the article subject's known usage. YokoNonbei (talk) 01:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)