The Use of "zo"

[ainsoph9]

This is something that has been puzzling me for some time now. I keep on hear girls use "zo," a particle in Japanese that is usually reserved strictly for males when they want to show certainty or that they know something that they think the listener does not know or to express desire. I know that the lines between masculine and feminine speech are becoming blurrier over time, but I am even here the supposedly more moe characters in anime using it. Is there anyone who could explain this to me?

[onizuka-gto]

its a trend, that's what i think.

Its like when in the 80's you had the biker girls, who dressed in the blue long skirts and squat about.

dunno if this trend is strong, it might stick like "kogal" trend, or it might fade over time.

[Dan]

Its like when in the 80's you had the biker girls, who dressed in the blue long skirts and squat about.

What?

[ainsoph9]

Yeah, it might be that way. I do not know, hence the post. All I know is that it could be "cho beri baa to ka" (something like so very bad), which was teenie bopper slang from the 90s.

[onizuka-gto]

Its like when in the 80's you had the biker girls, who dressed in the blue long skirts and squat about.

What?

you know, the girl gangs?

they were like the female version of "Banchou" they wore a high school version of the sailor fuku, that was reversed coloured.

Instead of white with those blue "sailor" strips, all blue and white strips, but modified to have the skirts go all the way down to their ankles so it looked like a martial art hakken

they usually skipped school, carried boken swords, wear cough masks, squat in meeting places.

some of the violent ones carried razor blade, because during inter-territory conflict the terrible thing you could do to another rival girl gangster was to scar their face.

seriously, they were as popular as the Kogal's were in the 90's.

[ainsoph9]

I knew that they existed in anime and manga, but I did not exactly think that they were a complete reflection of reality. I know that you see them in manga and anime like Fruits Basket. Uo-chan and Touru's mother were that, but it does not seem as realistic as some of the other concepts in the series, like the idea of family.

[derawr]

Its like when in the 80's you had the biker girls, who dressed in the blue long skirts and squat about.

Whoa...WAYBACK MACHINE...

j/k

[ainsoph9]

Yes, Mr. Peabody. Unfortunately, I think that many of us here were in diapers still. So to remember that would be a little bit difficult.