January 26, 2012   3 notes   
Leaving this here because I plan to write more about Bakuman later. While I really like the show, it also offers an interesting look at how traditional ideas about gender can hamper even the best-intentions in a relationship. Shuujin, for all his tender feelings towards Miyoshi believes that his work with Mashiro is really a male-bonding exercise and has to reluctantly let his girlfriend start working with them. I think it comes from a sense that girls are different and strange, which in many ways pervades the anime (not that the Manga-ka believes it, but certainly his male characters do). I think it upsets me more than a little that Shuujin lets this outlook color his interactions with Miyoshi. She is wonderful and fun, but deserves to be understood for who SHE is, not a some kind of strange creature. Hopefully, he’ll get there.

Leaving this here because I plan to write more about Bakuman later. While I really like the show, it also offers an interesting look at how traditional ideas about gender can hamper even the best-intentions in a relationship.

Shuujin, for all his tender feelings towards Miyoshi believes that his work with Mashiro is really a male-bonding exercise and has to reluctantly let his girlfriend start working with them. I think it comes from a sense that girls are different and strange, which in many ways pervades the anime (not that the Manga-ka believes it, but certainly his male characters do).

I think it upsets me more than a little that Shuujin lets this outlook color his interactions with Miyoshi. She is wonderful and fun, but deserves to be understood for who SHE is, not a some kind of strange creature. Hopefully, he’ll get there.

  1. gyoku-kin reblogged this from aboutwaifuz and added:
    sexist, in every way. The mangaka treat female characters in...sexist way, male characters...
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