Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "شيميل" in Arabic language version.
"It all goes back to the 1950s," he says, tracing the rise of a gei ba (gay bar) entertainment culture to the early postwar era, and the coinage of the phrase to one such bar in Osaka, Betty's Mayonnaise, in 1982. Transgender proprietor Betty borrowed the loanword for mixed-race Japanese, "half," and pronounced herself, "half man and half woman, therefore 'New Half'."
"It all goes back to the 1950s," he says, tracing the rise of a gei ba (gay bar) entertainment culture to the early postwar era, and the coinage of the phrase to one such bar in Osaka, Betty's Mayonnaise, in 1982. Transgender proprietor Betty borrowed the loanword for mixed-race Japanese, "half," and pronounced herself, "half man and half woman, therefore 'New Half'."
