What /is/ this?

[branchandroot]

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?

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Re: Sorry...I babble more at night.

[branchandroot]

*goes to read*

Oh, ouch. Yeah, if that happens intellectually too I can see how it would lend itself to nothing but rote.

And of course the established interests would like it that way and not see the threat or problem, long term. It's comfy that way. Even in US schools, which allegedly place a far stronger emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving, there is almost zero support for actually trying to change the curriculum to teach those things. Argh.

Re: Sorry...I babble more at night.

[midorigirl.insanejournal.com]

I can name six of the 35 child students I teach, who can expand on their answers and do so gleefully and with abandon, even when what they come up with is utterly insane or goofy. 17% of my kids, which if you take it as a sample of the population...well...yeah.
On the plus side, there is this bit of sunshine concerning Japan. At least they're trying to do something about their demographic problem that ISN'T encouraging women to be constantly pregnant. However its disheartening that Japan wouldn't do anything until now to encourage thinkers to stay. Even if they article focuses on poorer immigrant families, imagine what language programs could do for its intellectual community. I will point out that some McDonald's already offer English language programs to their workers, for very reduced costs.

Re: Sorry...I babble more at night.

[branchandroot]

*winces* Ouch. I mean, I'm used to having to do some tooth-pulling, but having them not be /able/ to expand...

*stares at the article* That's... that's huge. I mean, Japan's public and approved image for the last *thinks* four hundred years almost has been so completely insular. So utterly anti-outsiders. Wow. If that initiative works, I imagine it really will be a turning point.