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lady_ganesh

A crazy handful of...something, anyway.

Jul 15, 2009 19:48

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gryphonsegg July 16 2009, 04:16:40 UTC

I've heard all the ones that you and the first five commenters mentioned. One specific subtype of the sexist complain I haven't seen mentioned yet is that all female characters in anime are stupid, helpless, infantilized ditzes. Another is that it's all not just sexist but violently misogynist and female characters are there so that viewers can enjoy watching a "worthless" girl get tortured. Also, there's a stereotype that tentacle rape hentai makes up the majority of anime.

lady_ganesh July 18 2009, 02:38:48 UTC

Tentacle rape hentai will definitely figure in this somewhere.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:12:24 UTC

Back when I used to follow US comics blogs more than I do now, I kept seeing posts about whether US companies should adopt manga-like conventions for their comics to attract more young readers and female readers. And the people who were most ardently against this idea or who mocked it the most mercilessly usually made it obvious that they had absolutely no idea what the conventions of manga were beyond "big eyes," "schoolgirls," and "tentacles." Some of them went on and on about "shoju" manga, which I came to realize was probably a misspelling of "shoujo," by which they meant any manga that had a young female character in a prominent role. They seriously did not differentiate girls as identification figures in actual shoujo, girls as age-appropriate crush objects in shounen, girls as kid sister figures in manga aimed at adults, girls as age-inappropriate objects of desire in suggestive titles for men, and girls as fetishized sex objects in porn. All got lumped into the category of "shoujo," "shojo," or "shoju" manga. And all of ( ... )

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:13:38 UTC

Although doing that would probably help sales more than the strategy they've got now!

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:25:22 UTC

Ah, yes, the "Make everything increasingly repulsive and offensive, and tell everyone who complains that they should stop reading comics" strategy, aka the reason I stopped buying Marvel comics after 16 years of comics purchases and brand loyalty.

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:26:40 UTC

And "be sure to accuse anyone who complains of either stealing their comics or just not 'getting' your genius." I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS STRATEGY IS NOT SUCCESSFUL.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:32:48 UTC

I WASN'T REALLY OFFENDED AND DISGUSTED! I WAS SCARED AWAY BY HOW EDGY AND DARING IT WAS TO STRIP MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS OF EVERYTHING THAT MADE THEM ADMIRABLE OR UNIQUE!

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:33:36 UTC

Do not remind me of the 'edgy' and 'dark' fetishization. I am very close to blowing!

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:37:39 UTC

Sorry! Have a happy, cute icon instead.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:38:53 UTC

Actually, this is the icon I meant to use. I <3 the glider chair, but the smiley happiness of the close-up might be better for chase the edginess away.

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:40:05 UTC

He's so CUTE omg.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:45:52 UTC

I know, right? Awareness of Joe Quesada's existence just fades away in the light of Teo.

And there's another one of my not-so-cute mind-slippage mistakes. "Better for chasing the edginess away." I can use good grammar, I promise! XD

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:52:18 UTC

OF COURSE YOU CAN. I don't think much compares to my saying 'pilot' instead of 'wallet' last night, wtf.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 18:57:56 UTC

My recurring nightmare is that one of these days, I'm going be discussing something really serious and I'm going to leave out a "not."

lady_ganesh July 19 2009, 18:58:52 UTC

I've done that! That's one of the reasons I prefer LJ to other blogging services, actually, people let you know when you've done that really quickly.

gryphonsegg July 19 2009, 19:07:34 UTC

That's good to know.

Maybe it's not so bad if the readers are a small group that has followed the journal for a while. Then they would say, "Did you leave something out of the first sentence of the second paragraph, you know, like you sometimes do? Because that doesn't seem like the kind of opinions you usually hold." But a writer who becomes widely known and linked all over the place runs the risk of new readers popping in and seeing something appalling.

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