August 2011
7 posts
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Sekai the Nice Girl
[TW: Violence Against Women]
Or: Don’t sleep with the nice guy
This post is about School Days. There will be spoilers.
There’s been a lot of chatter on the feminist and MRA blogospheres about why the “Nice Guy” is a myth or a horrible thing to be or somesuch. The basic premise behind the critique is that the “Nice Guy” believes that he can get a girl by just...
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Before We Get Too Far...
I am painfully aware I’m KIND of talking out of both sides of my mouth on this, but there are some obvious misogynistic elements in anime that I am not interested in addressing since to do so would be a) shooting fish in a barrel, and b) take up ALL of my time. Some of the things on that list are:
The Proliferation of Panty Shots - this is deplorable, but part of the landscape. We all know...
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You ARE the Demon King!
(Image Courtesy of Anime-Planet)
[TW: Oblique discussion of violence and mention of bullying]
Part of the problem in constructing gender identity is that it occasionally feeds itself. One obvious example is that men are expected to ask women out, so they ask women out, feeding the stereotype and convention that men need to be the aggressors in relationships. Hear something about yourself...
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Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned (Lady...
[TW: Rape and Violence after the jump]
mangatherapy:
Recently, I’ve been seeing advertisements & commercials for the upcoming “vengeful woman” film, Colombiana. The movie’s tagline goes like this: “Vengeance/Revenge Is Beautiful”. Seeing the promotional media for the film has got me thinking about an old-school manga that I read not too long ago. That manga is none other than Lady...
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Come-u My Harem-u!
Quick comment about an inherent failure of harem anime that sort of came together when I read Otaku Dan’s post about Yosuga no Sora and thought about it in relation to the discussion raging on No, Seriously What About the Menz? that has been discussing white cis-gendered male heterosexual characters a ciphers, because MOST men in Harem anime are just that.
It’s easy to claim that...
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But I'm the Victim Here!
[Trigger Warning: Rape, Rape Culture]
This idea inspired the blog so, it’s obvious that it should be the first post.
(Picture stolen from Kurogane)
For the most part, Yuru Yuri appears to be a middling yuri-themed slice-of-life anime that focuses on the vaguely sexy and unrealistic hi-jinks of a bunch of high school girls. In the fifth episode, however, the show makes a grave misstep...
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Introduction
This is a brain dump Tumblr. With a mission. I am interested in exploring anime through the lens of the feminist ideologies that I’ve been reading about on different parts of the internet.
For what it’s worth, I get most of my feminist learnin’ from Shakesville and No, Seriously What About The Menz at this point, but I’m always interested in other related linkage.
Anime?...
