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la_vie_noire) wrote2010-04-10 05:27 pm
la_vie_noire) wrote2010-04-10 05:27 pm
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Why do I even bother?
*sighs* Well, if we have a badass woman, of course it's because we need the fanboys to see panties in a while. Her weapons were awesome, sadly, she just seems to be fanservice fodder while Hibari, the boring asshole, gets to look all dignified (let's not forget that most of the fight panels were focused on Adelheid, not on Hibari). People all happy because Amano is giving fanservice to fanboys! I just... let me laugh a moment, ladies. I laugh.
And then there is Hibari and his not so bright fangirls.
Was anyone else glad that Hibari put Adelheid in her place? Lol, putting her sign on Nanimori Middle? XD Gonna get bitten to death.
Uhm. Yeah, putting women in their places in a shonen manga with male supremacy! Do I need to say more.
And don't let me get started in that one fanboy that once said that fangirls were the reason why women were always hated in KHR fandom!
I mean, seriously? Yeah, it's a forum called "Saiyan-something," which means 15 year old DB fanboys. But you know what? That's WSJ target audience if you hadn't noticed. (A hint? Look at that video of that event called "Jump Something" (Bang maybe?) where there are only young KHR fanboys featured, when it's of public knowledge that young girls make most of the KHR readership. Yeah, they didn't do that because they wanted to give the boys "equals treatment" or something, ladies. Oh, fandom. I don't know how to feel about you. I just can't even get angry right now.
ETA: Also, some day, someone, not me, has to write something about young girls and what they get from shonen manga, which is much more mainstream and, most of the time, more popular than shoujo manga. KHR is a good example of this, I have seen Japanese fans said that girls make 80% of KHR readers. And see, young girls may go for bishonen in these kind of manga, but the message they always get is this: cis men are the only valid and idolized identities; only relationship between men are worthy; women are sexual objects and not much more; only men can be powerful and admired, etc. Young boys? Get exactly the same thing. And this is just because people love the, "but this is a shonen manga!!" argument. As if there is no such a thing as sexism in this industry.
And then there is Hibari and his not so bright fangirls.
Was anyone else glad that Hibari put Adelheid in her place? Lol, putting her sign on Nanimori Middle? XD Gonna get bitten to death.
Uhm. Yeah, putting women in their places in a shonen manga with male supremacy! Do I need to say more.
And don't let me get started in that one fanboy that once said that fangirls were the reason why women were always hated in KHR fandom!
I mean, seriously? Yeah, it's a forum called "Saiyan-something," which means 15 year old DB fanboys. But you know what? That's WSJ target audience if you hadn't noticed. (A hint? Look at that video of that event called "Jump Something" (Bang maybe?) where there are only young KHR fanboys featured, when it's of public knowledge that young girls make most of the KHR readership. Yeah, they didn't do that because they wanted to give the boys "equals treatment" or something, ladies. Oh, fandom. I don't know how to feel about you. I just can't even get angry right now.
ETA: Also, some day, someone, not me, has to write something about young girls and what they get from shonen manga, which is much more mainstream and, most of the time, more popular than shoujo manga. KHR is a good example of this, I have seen Japanese fans said that girls make 80% of KHR readers. And see, young girls may go for bishonen in these kind of manga, but the message they always get is this: cis men are the only valid and idolized identities; only relationship between men are worthy; women are sexual objects and not much more; only men can be powerful and admired, etc. Young boys? Get exactly the same thing. And this is just because people love the, "but this is a shonen manga!!" argument. As if there is no such a thing as sexism in this industry.