June 2012
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Taking Stock
[Four boys walk in a line along a wall by the sea. The first one carries a fishing pole and the last one carries a duck. Image grabbed from Conspicuous Klux]
So… I’ve been wanting to write more about how anime does men a disservice for a while now, but other things keep distracting. In the spirit of my thought collections for the panel, I thought I’d muse some on Tsuritama and...
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Collecting My Thoughts - 3b
…Which of course brings us to shoujo.
In a world of equal fuckery [do not use this word in your panel, you are not Ozzie], mainline shoujo would go as far towards objectification of men as shounen can do for women. But, that’s not the case. Now, of course, I’m skirting yaoi works because, let’s be fair, they don’t map directly on to something like Naruto. Skip Beat!,...
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Collecting My Thoughts - Intro
Hey, and welcome to our panel on Sexism in Anime and Anime Fandom!
[If setup is taking awhile, I have some ideas of how to kill some time. Holding them in reserve for people who attend. :D]
My name is Patrick Taylor and I’m a reviewer for Anime-Planet and a feminist ani-blogger both at my own site (on tumblr, where else?) and on staff at The Untold Story of Altair & Vega.
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-redux asked: Your post on MGX via here (not Altair and Vega) is very interesting- and I in a way do agree that Oka does violate Urabe's space at times- but I feel like Urabe is the sort of person who, if she had a problem with that sort of thing, would have explicitly said so? The fact that she remains as Oka's friend based on their strange relationship of spit sharing/food feeding tells me that in a...
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"Doing It Right" While Doing it Wrong
For a possible blog post at Altair & Vega, I’ve started reading Mysterious Girlfriend X. And, in addition to the content of the not-written blog post, I had some thoughts about the manga that I wanted to share here as a break from panel thoughts.
The manga at its core is about sex an intimacy in a non-traditional way. Tsubaki (the boy who’s the manga’s main character) and...
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Technicolor World →
Orihaya Lily writes a beautiful meditation on a local pride parade, connecting the yuri manga Aoi Hana to her life.
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Collecting My Thoughts - 2b
Here, I’m going to start to hash out some of the ideas and content I want to cover in my Otakon panel. Feedback is always appreciated and don’t assume that anything in any of these posts will make it into the final panel. This is more a way for me to organize my thinking and find precisely what I want to say.
This continues from part 1b
(or not 2b… lolololol… *facepalm*)
The problem...
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Lupin III – The Realm of Fujiko Mine is the Realm... →
Violence Jill at it AGAIN. Go, read. Bask in the embrace of her lovely mind-tentacles.
Objectification, or You are Really Bad at Root...
teamvalkyrieftw:
Caveat: This post is discussing sexism. It’s going to use a lot of gender-binary language. I’m sorry about that, but I have a distinct point I’m trying to prove, and the statistics gathered which support this are all in terms of men-v-women, and well. Also this is focused on the United States, because that’s the context that I can speak from, confidently. And while this post is...
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It's Never Enough
Part Five of this post got me thinking about why we’ve seen pushback from anime fans on any topic adjacent to fanservice or objectification. And it reminded me of a non-anime story.
I work part time at a retail company with a rebate program. We issue rebates on purchases as little chits and they expire (no discussion of whether the system is imperfect, please. ^_^). We cannot take the...
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Surveys On Sexism →
This link is to a post on Altair & Vega where you can also find my survey on convention culture in general. Even those of you who attend in plainclothes can fill that one out! :D
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Cosplay Survey For Otakon 2012 →
This is a survey about experiences of cosplayers. One of the two surveys that will form an important part of the panel I’m working on. If you’ve got time, take it, please!
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Collecting My Thoughts - 1b
Here, I’m going to start to hash out some of the ideas and content I want to cover in my Otakon panel. Feedback is always appreciated and don’t assume that anything in any of these posts will make it into the final panel. This is more a way for me to organize my thinking and find precisely what I want to say.
This is an alternate tack inspired by Cassie
So, we’re not a mono-culture. In...
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Collecting My Thoughts - 2
Here, I’m going to start to hash out some of the ideas and content I want to cover in my Otakon panel. Feedback is always appreciated and don’t assume that anything in any of these posts will make it into the final panel. This is more a way for me to organize my thinking and find precisely what I want to say.
[Hot Springs Slide]
As a pretty common trope in anime that include women or girls, hot...
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Collecting My Thoughts - 1
Here, I’m going to start to hash out some of the ideas and content I want to cover in my Otakon panel. Feedback is always appreciated and don’t assume that anything in any of these posts will make it into the final panel. This is more a way for me to organize my thinking and find precisely what I want to say.
Sexism, as defined in the dictionary has two components:
Attitudes or...
The Otakon Panels Department is pleased to present... →
laureninspace:
My panel is here! So excited =)
SO! The cat is out of the bag. Lauren and I have a panel for Otakon. On Sexism. Stay tuned for more info. :D
