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lady_ganesh

A crazy handful of...something, anyway.

Jul 15, 2009 19:48

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lady_ganesh July 16 2009, 01:14:11 UTC

All the characters in anime with non-black hair are white!

How could I have forgotten that one?

smillaraaq July 16 2009, 03:15:53 UTC

And even the dark-haired characters are mostly white too if their hair isn't poker-straight, or their eyes are big and round, or they're not wearing Obviously Ethnic Clothes! *headdesk*

Stuff I've heard other than that obvious fail: It's all porn. It's all particularly disgusting, violent, and/or kinky porn. It's deeply sexist. It's too violent. It's nothing but sparkly big-eyed girls being perky and musclebound dudes beating each other up, or monsters and giant robots. It's just stupid kiddy stuff and the only adults who like it are perverts or hopelessly immature and shallow. A lot of it's the same sort of stereotypes you tend to hear about Western comics and animation, basically, only amplified by an additional layer of "Japanese culture is so silly/kinky/sexist/unspeakably weird"

rachelmanija July 16 2009, 19:17:03 UTC

In the Avatar movie, they are white even if their hair is straight, their eyes are not big and round, and they are wearing Obviously Ethnic Clothes. GRRRRR...

lady_ganesh July 16 2009, 19:24:24 UTC

I am still so unspeakably angry about Avatar.

smillaraaq July 19 2009, 22:26:05 UTC

But they had light gray and blue and green and amber eyes, and ONLY WHITE PEOPLE ever have those! Plus they've got a few POC as extras and bad guys so it's not like the world isn't diverse, right? *growls along with you*

This is a stereotype rachelmanija July 16 2009, 02:48:04 UTC

Anime is all about men perving on schoolgirls and other underage girls, which is the primary form of sexual expression in Japan.

lady_ganesh July 16 2009, 02:48:53 UTC

If I'm not careful, I'm going to write an essay on American Stereotypes About Japan rather than just anime/manga.

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