one-among-us-data/people/shihai4h/page.en.json

"\"use strict\";Object.defineProperty(exports,\"__esModule\",{value:true});Object.defineProperty(exports,\"default\",{enumerable:true,get:function(){return _default}});function _createMdxContent(props){var _components=Object.assign({h2:\"h2\",p:\"p\",em:\"em\",blockquote:\"blockquote\",a:\"a\"},props.components),PhotoScroll=_components.PhotoScroll;if(!PhotoScroll)_missingMdxReference(\"PhotoScroll\",true);return Vue.h(Vue.Fragment,null,Vue.h(_components.h2,null,\"Description\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(PhotoScroll,{photos:[\"${path}/photos/photo1.jpg\",\"${path}/photos/photo2.jpg\"]}),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Shihai was a naive girl who preferred to stand by the window, gazing into the distance and losing in thought, just like her favourite QQ avators.\\nIn that state, she won't notice you if you walk close to her quietly.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The first time I met her in real life, I (The author of this entry) was immediately attracted by her gloomy temperament just like Lin Tai-yu in \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"A Dream of Red Mansions\"),\".\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(PhotoScroll,{photos:[\"${path}/photos/photo3.jpg\"]}),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"（The preceding photo is Shihai measuring her height）\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.h2,null,\"Her Family\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'Her hometown is located inside the Central Plains.\\nConservative values is dominant there.\\nHer grandfather had two sons because of birth control legislations.\\nHer uncle (the elder son) had one daughter (her sister); her father had one \"son\" (her).'),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'They had a tradition of throwing away the placenta for female babies and burying the placenta in the center of the courtyard for male babies.\\nTherefore, she had an enormous amount of pressure put on her for \"extending the family line\" ever since her birth.'),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'Her father was whom we\\'d call a \"traditional father\" who follows Machismo.\\nIn 2023, her father started to be even more strict with her after he almost died from a disease.'),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Her father was proficient in Math and Economics.\\nHe wanted to raise her to be \\\"a man who can support the sky while standing on the ground\\\".\\nHe said \\\"I want him to be resilient and unyielding, but he's too kind; he can't do it.\\\"\\nMoreover, because she was fragile, introverted, and kind since being a child, out of worry, he often taught her what he thought was necessary to live in a society:\\nCapitalism, Laws, the dark side of humanity...but she often wasn't able to meet her father's standard.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She had poor grades in junior middle school, and still wasn't able to meet her family's expectations after junior middle school.\\nShe always blamed herself for that.\\nAfter her graduation from high school, she studied at home for a year and then was able to get into a good public university.\\nSince she was living with her parents, she didn't have much personal space and was always blamed for things that are not her fault.\\nFor example, when she plays a game to take a break from studies, she'd be blamed for \\\"always playing games\\\".\\nTherefore, she was always depressed.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.h2,null,\"Her Transgender Experience\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Her father told us how she was like as a child.\\nEver since she was a child, she acted femininely.\\nShe told him, when she first started school, students were separated into groups of boys and girls to play.\\nShe imagined playing with the girls after school.\\nAccording to some other stories told by her father, she seems to be a girl who was assigned the wrong gender at birth.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Looking at her early life, her transgender experience is similar to Einar Wegener from \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"The Danish Girl\"),\".\\nHer gender incongruity was made apparent in as early as her childhood.\\nHer early male personality was formed by trying to fit in with traditional values and ethics, but that's not the real her.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'Sigmund Freud explained his theory about \"abnormal behaviors\" in his publication ',Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality\"),\":\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Where the sexual instinct is fairly intense, but perverse, there are two possible outcomes.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The first, which we shall not discuss further, is that the person affected remains a pervert and has to put up with the consequences of his deviation from the standard of civilization.\\nThe second is far more interesting. It is that, under the influence of education and social demands, a suppression of the perverse instincts is indeed achieved, but it is a kind of suppression which is really no suppression at all. It can better be described as a suppression that has failed.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The inhibited sexual instincts are, it is true, no longer expressed as such—and this constitutes the success of the process—but they find expression in other ways, which are quite as injurious to the subject and make him quite as useless for society as satisfaction of the suppressed instincts in an unmodified form would have done. This constitutes the failure of the process, which in the long run more than counterbalances its success.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The substitutive phenomena which emerge in consequence of the suppression of the instinct amount to what we call nervous illness, or, more precisely, the psychoneuroses.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Neurotics are the class of people who, since they possess a recalcitrant organization, only succeed, under the influence of cultural requirements, in achieving a suppression of their instincts which is apparent and which becomes increasingly unsuccessful. They therefore only carry on their collaboration with cultural activities by a great expenditure of force and at the cost of an internal impoverishment, or are obliged at times to interrupt it and fall ill.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from Freud, S. (1908). ‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous I lness. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume IX (1906-1908): Jensen's ‘Gradiva’ and Other Works, 177-204\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"According to conservative values, being trans is a kind of such abnormality.\\nShe knew her parents may not be able to accept her choices.\\nShe thought her choice caused her parents' wishes of her void.\\nShe was diagnosed with severe depression after a failed suicide attempt.\\nAt that time, her father thought her trans identity was just a crossdressing fetish and was hopeful for her to be \\\"cured\\\" in a few years.\\nHe thought if that problem is taken care of, then she won't be depressed, and tried to accept her and even allowing her to take HRT.\\nHe told her he'll convince her mother, but he failed.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Her mother ran away from home after learning about the situation.\\nHer mother told her she wants to die and never see her again.\\nBefore that, her parents were a loving couple who'd hold hands while going out.\\nThey even took a new set of wedding photographs in June that same year.\\nTherefore, she was stuck in a dilemma between them.\\nHer mother's words of unacceptance was a big blow for her.\\nAccording to her character, she might think:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"If I'm no longer in this world, or if I was not born in the first place, then maybe my parents won't have to deal with me and will be happier?\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She's born sentimental and has a fragile but kind heart.\\nIn my opinion, she's a silly girl who's too kind for her own good.\\nShe'd rather blame her misfortune on her fate rather than others' malice,\\njust like Tai-Yu's negative outlook on life and relationships:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Coming together can only be followed by parting. The more pleasure people find in parties, the more lonely and unhappy they must feel when the parties break up. So better not forgather in the first place. The same is true of flowers: the delight people when in bloom, but it's so heart-rending to see them fade that it would be better if they never blossomed.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from A Dream of Red Mansions Volume I (Cao Xueqin, Gao E.), Foreign languages Press, Beijing, China, 1994 (First Published in hardback in 1978) 【第一册 P452】ISBN: 9787119006437\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Since a long time ago, she wanted to avoid forming close relationships because she's afraid of the partings.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She had poor grades in middle school and was often bullied.\\nShe couldn't fight back for unreasonable isolation and even physical abuse.\\nAt that time, she had a close friend.\\nThey were neighbours.\\nShe started to learn to play basketball in order to play together.\\nHowever, they parted after he started to bully her.\\nThat was her first resistance.\\nWith teary eyes, she questioned:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Why'd you bully me too?\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Given her character and lack of therapy, this cruel experience made her eventually develop \",Vue.h(_components.a,{href:\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_stress_disorder\"},\"PTSD/PTSR\"),\".\\nShe started to be afraid of close relationships more.\\nHer other mental issues like severe depression is also related to this experience.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"When she remembers the horrible things she'd been through, I had seen her whole body cramping, trembling. I had seen her suffer from fear, dread, and shortness of breath.\\nBut I was too neglectful and obtuse.\\nI didn't realize the severity of the situation and the difficulty of dealing with it.\\nIf I realized, maybe things could be different.\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She inherited the stubbornness of her father.\\nHer father researched nutritionalism and sports in order to make her grow taller.\\nAt that time, she wanted to grow taller as well, therefore she did as he instructed:\\neating one meal per day and doing lots of exercise.\\nShe had learnt of HRT since high school, but couldn't decide on it.\\nAfter starting HRT, she started to regret for her efforts to grow taller in the past.\\nShe suffered from gender dysphoria from her height, which was especially painful for her, who was both mentally unwell and stubborn.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.h2,null,\"She and the Trans Community\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"(The full story is very long, even after removing some details.\\nSince it's just me and another of her friends' comments, we'll refrain from putting \",Vue.h(_components.a,{href:\"https://www.douban.com/note/858246014/?dt_dapp=1&_i=4897516gLA6hO2\"},\"it\"),\" on here.)\")),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"For the last part of her story with the trans community, I'm both a character inside the story and a reader of the story.\\nIn the end, I was the one who was most likely to save her life, but I wasn't able to.\\nShe's lost, just like in her last nightmare, her call to me wasn't picked up.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Those stories all describe one thing:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"A silly girl who was never given enough love keep giving the world and everyone she meets her kindness and trust.\\nAnd then she's hurt by people who just want to \\\"have some fun\\\" publishing her real identity online, to the point where she developed a persecution complex.\\nShe was continuously influenced by the negative thoughts of the ones she trusted and relied on the most, and then cut off and isolated.\\nOn this timeline, there were tons of points where she could've gotten better, but her luck is just too bad.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"I'm not a great person.\\nI'm a numb person who keeps living in my own world and only understood everything after she left.\\nI didn't know anything about her oppressive family and those cruel things happened to her.\\nMy cold heart didn't experience her suffering, as an ancient Chinese poet wrote in his prose:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'\"The wind is born from the earth, Rises from the tips of green duckweed.\"'),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III: Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) , David R. Knechtges【P9】\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"If I was a more caring person, maybe I could've realized those abnormalities, maybe I could've prevented her death.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Do not cry for love, my dear.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"Conversations About Love\"),\" by Li Yinhe\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"In her view, I'm a big sister who likes her.\\nShe was too kind.\\nShe knew love comes with pain, but she didn't want to hurt anyone.\\nTherefore, she gave me a complex form of love involving romantic affection, sisterly love, and gingerly care.\\nSince she knew she had been influenced negatively by many other trans people who have negative outlooks on life, she didn't want to \\\"infect\\\" those negative thoughts to me, just like she's always worried about the person in her heart.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She tried intentionally keeping a distance from me:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Anan is a working member of society, I won't care whether you wants to be with me or not.\\nWrong.\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"There's nothing happier in this world than being loved back by the one you love.\\nYou had always been the vast sea and clear sky in my world.\\nSorry, I was busy making a living; I was busy dealing with others.\\nBut I forgot to hold on to your hand and lost you.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.h2,null,\"Absurdity and Suicide, the Last Chapter\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"God keeps throwing the dice and it always landed on one.\\nBorn emotionally sensitive, pressure from family, meeting the wrong people, one after one, she didn't have a chance to collect herself.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"How could such a delicate flower withstand a fierce gale, or the care-stricken willow endure torrential rain?\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from A Dream of Red Mansions Volume II (Cao Xueqin, Gao E.), Foreign languages Press, Beijing, China, 1994 (First Published in hardback in 1978) 【第二册 P672】ISBN: 9787119006437\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"I don't wanna spend more ink on those people who had betrayed her.\\nHumanity, though complex, always leaves traces.\\nShe was smart enough to realize this from the beginning:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"There're happiness in life, but nothing lasts forever.\\nThere're imperfections in good things, and fortunes always come with small prints.\\nHappiness would turn into sadness; people come and go.\\nIn the end it's like a dream, everything turns to void.\\nMaybe it's not worth it in the first place.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from Chapter 1, The Dream of Red Mansion(Jia-Xu Version), Translated by \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"One Among Us Member\"),\" with the help of Li'an\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"She thought lots and lots and waited for a juncture.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The worm is in man’s heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of experience to flight from light.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, Penguin Books Ltd; Spark Publishing【P2】ISBN 13: 9781411473379\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Many philosophers and authors explained well the tragedy, voidness, and absurdity of living.\\nEveryone is infinity if they're seen as the center of the world.\",\"\\nIn essence, everyone is an island.\\nWhat one think cannot be directly experienced by any other.\\nIn this view, anyone's consciousness is always alone.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"People spend their lives to beg for love from the world, but disappointment is often what follows.\\nAt those points, the meaninglessness and disappointing nature of the world would be shown completely.\\nBut humanity contains hope for love, happiness, and rationality.\\nAbsurdity and meaninglessness is then born from the conflict of humanity's hope and world's nature.\\nRealizing they are enduring this absurd world, some may be motivated for suicide.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation and the uselessness of suffering.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"What then is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. All healthy men having thought of their own suicide, it can be seen, without further explanation, that there is a direct connection between this feeling and the longing for death.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"from The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, Penguin Books Ltd; Spark Publishing【P3】ISBN 13: 9781411473379\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Motivations for suicide is complex.\\nFew consider it throughly.\\nThe numbness of living just for living causes pain, but suicide needs a kind of bravery that overcomes the body's natural inclination to avoid death.\\n\\\"My soul is on the verge of death, but my body don't want to die.\\\"\\nIf there's any hint of meaning at that point, death may be avoided.\\nWhat she thought to be her meaning fades completely at some point and caused her will to keep living as a habit to crumble.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Albert Camus had a positive outlook on life.\\nHe often nostalgically recalled the vast sea and clear sky from his hometown.\\nHe realized the absurdity of life, but he also realized he could live however he wanted.\\nHe knew he couldn't rid the evil of the world, but he embraced the absurdity of live anyway.\\nBut my dear Shihai, this world had lost the vast sea and clear sky she was so fond of.\\nWhat an world would make people choose to die rather than living?\\nHow absurd.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,'In the end, she said \"Living is just eating, drinking, playing, and having sex.\", \"World abandoned me so I\\'ll abandon it too.\"'),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"In the end, she got a bad end she wanted to get in \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"Needy Streamer Overload\"),\".\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"In the end, she chose to become one with the void as a final act of defiance to the gods:\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Ame (main character of \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"Needy Streamer Overload\"),\") can restart in the next playthrough,\\nbut in this world,\\neven if I spend my whole life,\\nI'll never find that silly cat again.\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.blockquote,null,\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"No search can be made for the incense that revives the dead, as the way to Fairy Tales is lost. No medicine that restores life can be obtained, as the Magic Barge is gone. Only yesterday I was painting those bluish eyebrows; today, who will warm her cold fingers with the jade rings?\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Magic Barge: Magic Barge: A Chinese legend said this belonged to the immortals and sailed in the Sky River, Milky Way.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"A Dream of Red Mansions Volume II (Cao Xueqin, Gao E.), Foreign languages Press, Beijing, China, 1994 (First Published in hardback in 1978) 【第二册 P672】ISBN: 9787119006437\"),\"\\n\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The morning after she left, it snowed.\\nI thought, such a kind being must have gone to that star in the sky and became a god of snow.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"The Japanese like to use Sakura flowers as a metaphor for human life.\\nThey bloom for just a moment and then wither.\\nHer life is just like that.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Mishima Yukio wrote a life of rebirth in \",Vue.h(_components.em,null,\"The Decay of the Angel\"),\".\\nEvery time they reaches 18, they'd be reborn in another life.\\nTherefore, they always lived in their best days and never needed to worry about dying after their teeth fall off, hair become gray, or losing their beauty.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Shihai is like that, although the Sakura flower has withered, it had bloomed after all.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"My dear Shihai, see you in the next life.\\nI believe we'll meet even then, since we've become intertwined by fate.\\nI still wanted to ask you why, but no one will give me an answer now no matter how many times I do.\"),\"\\n\",Vue.h(_components.p,null,\"Contributor: \",Vue.h(_components.a,{href:\"https://twitter.com/LianShihai\"},\"Li'an\")),\"\\n\")}function MDXContent(props){if(props===void 0)props={};var _ref=props.components||{},MDXLayout=_ref.wrapper;return MDXLayout?Vue.h(MDXLayout,props,Vue.h(_createMdxContent,props)):_createMdxContent(props)}var _default=MDXContent;function _missingMdxReference(id,component){throw new Error(\"Expected \"+(component?\"component\":\"object\")+\" `\"+id+\"` to be defined: you likely forgot to import, pass, or provide it.\")}"