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branchandroot) wrote2009-01-30 01:28 pm
branchandroot) wrote2009-01-30 01:28 pm
What /is/ this?
Okay, seriously, what the fuck?
My rant on women in KHR was far from the first thing I've written castigating some anime/manga or other for presenting women as useless frills or objectified sex shows or whatever other negative stereotype was in question. I'm fairly sure it wasn't the first time such an entry has been linked on a meta comm.
So why is this particular entry drawing so much fire? I just ran across yet another (annoyingly clueless) screed against it while googling for a KHR timeline for pity's sake!
Is there really such a concentration of anti-feminist women (I shudder that such a phrase can still be written) in KHR, or did this particular entry just happen to fall into the orbit of a small knot of them and I have the bad luck to keep stumbling over their excrescence?
My rant on women in KHR was far from the first thing I've written castigating some anime/manga or other for presenting women as useless frills or objectified sex shows or whatever other negative stereotype was in question. I'm fairly sure it wasn't the first time such an entry has been linked on a meta comm.
So why is this particular entry drawing so much fire? I just ran across yet another (annoyingly clueless) screed against it while googling for a KHR timeline for pity's sake!
Is there really such a concentration of anti-feminist women (I shudder that such a phrase can still be written) in KHR, or did this particular entry just happen to fall into the orbit of a small knot of them and I have the bad luck to keep stumbling over their excrescence?
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I have no problem with women enjoying fashion or cooking or nurturing, any more than I have a problem with men enjoying that.
The problem is not that some of the women characters enjoy doing 'girly' things. The problem is that none of the women characters outside of a villain or two are permitted to participate successfully in the life-or-death important things. They are they deliberate creation of an author, and, in KHR, they are denigrated by the author's narrative structure, placed constantly and explicitly as second-class--unless they're raving psychos. THAT is what I have a problem with.
Don't confuse defending the personal choices of actual women with structures that perpetuate a lack of choices. KHR's brand of story is one of those structures.