Quote Originally Posted by Shadow_in_the_Mist View Post
You're arguing that Tanuki should be a race of simultaneous hermaphrodites, where every individual has both masculine and feminine sexual organs, but has evolved a spectrum of gender identities based on two fundamental genders: Mother and Father (which mostly, but not entirely, correlate to Female and Male respectively)?
Pretty much. It gives them a male identity, and gives a reason why they'd have roughly two genders. It also acknowledges that motherhood is not the end-all be-all qualification for femaleness, or the same with maleness and fatherhood. Or if the Tanuki do believe that, they might not be in the right as far as the writer is concerned.