@asakapilled
To be frank she's such a non binary cutie that if she does anything problematic I might be tempted to pull the "x did nothing wrong!" card!
@jdcmedlock
Both women realize they love each other, that these men and these ideas are oppressing them and those like them and thus run away together happily ever after.
@asexualthot24
I mean. I'm a shojo newbie and so far a lot of shojo boys has not strike me as too "unrealistic" (whatever that means). Taichi is seen as relatable to many for ex. There usually are a lot to relate to or representative of traits many dudes do exhibit.
@dollshojo
I fear that the sentiment that having attraction to men means you're inevitably incapable of decentering them risk also demoralize other non binary identity (bi, pan, gay etc) from doing so, which is phenomenally harmful and politically impractical.
@writerofscratch
This has been bugging me since forever: that despite, punk, hardcore, metal's ethos of rebellion, so so so many of its musicians are at best centrist/"apolitical" or bloody reactionary yelling about "the man" without an iota of awareness of what is "the man" exactly.
@_hanatwothree
Should we push her to go all the way back to Rose of Versailles, Princess Knight etc or an I being too greedy? (Okay, the later is more probable)
In awe how Madhouse went above and beyond to get the Tatsuro Otake School of Dancing to choreograph Fern and Stark's dance in Frieren Episode 15. The referencing used here (and all in 2D!!!) making the dance smooth, how their steps slowly synced, their smiles... Chef's kiss.
@bloomfilters
This maybe off-topic and wrong (please inform me if it is): certain reactionary circles in anime fandoms often accused any criticisms of, say, sexism and racism in anime as "Western cultural imperialism" as if anime as we know it aren't a product of said exchange already long ago
@rechelon
I'm actually fairly critical of "individualism" (one of the reason is due to the term's vagueness in most discourse), but how the fuck can one call polyamory "bourgeois individualism" when loving multiple people is the whole fucking point?
@kyoruyeye
While a part of me think we often need to add the qualifier that this claim is based on a later manga adaptation of the anime (though both's release date were close from what I've recalled), after so much shounen mistaken for shojo, co-opting this one is oddly satisfying,
@asakapilled
What's the point of enjoying fiction if you do not read more into, read too much into it & produce multiple different interpretations under multiple frameworks?! This maybe my compulsive personality speaking, but fuck it.
@dollshojo
Can one also posit that heteronormativity incentivize or even outright coerce bisexual into more "conventional" social script? If so, then the onus cannot be solely on bisexual people, right?
@jnoelmanuel
My "hot take" on this topic is probably that most future harem (include harem + isekai) anime should jettison the male protag and let the girl interact as a lesbian polycule.
@aletheia327
I'm not sure whether she think she sounds intimidating calling her herself "daughter of wolves" and saying she's "raising herds of animals and children". those things just makes me fear for her physical and mental well being.
@supersensuel
Is it just me or is this just a more flowery "oppressed people are going to kill us all" paranoia which pervade centrists' mentality on things?
@kyoruyeye
It's an over the top, fairly self aware parody of shounen harem. Not too critical of the genre itself, but might still be enjoyable for poking fun at it while emphasizing its strength.
@dollshojo
My hot take: While I like the magical girl warrior subgenre, I kinda wanna see some return of some non-violent magical-girl-as-therapist, magical-girl-as-problem-solver, magical-girl-as-girlhood-exploration, etc. There's so much more you can do with the genre outside of action.
Yousef Alsweisi and her family had been living in Gaza City until they were ordered to evacuate in the middle of October. So far they have been displaced 10 times, now ending up in a warehouse in Rafah lacking basic life necessities. Please donate!
@dollshojo
I'm more surprised that science is listed as majority women reader despite the institution rival politics and philosophy in historically gatekeeping women. The genre taxonomy shown by the graph is also kinda a clusterfuck.
His mother,Amal, suffering from stage 4 osteoarthritis, is in urgent need of knee surgery. His brother wants to be a cardiologist to serve their community and need to go to PLAB 2 exam in May. His dental student sister's education is also in stasis. DONATE PLEASE!
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@mangaxis
@bloomfilters
I know. I just wanna point that out to emphasize how even in male-oriented space women are producing some of the best work for said space (and beyond).
@gabeatethesoap
So many details of Berserk has been discussed assiduously right down to the most granular ... yet this questionable treatment of rape seems like it has not been called out as ardently as it deserve.
@linesinmotion
I think the original post mis-identify the gender identity of Frieren's author. I perused the matter and most sites either call them male or leave it ambiguous.
@bloomfilters
Speaking for myself as a leftist guy, even putting asides the sexualization (something that def should not be put aside), Stellar Blade's design strikes me as incredibly generic.
@PresidentSunday
That's one kind of struggle in upholding restorative justice: certain cases can tugg at that side of you. It still worth it to uphold rehabilitation or retribution though.
Help Hamza's family of 11 escape Gaza. They've been repeatedly displaced, starved for days and forced to eat animal feed. His brother Anas who now lost an eye and him were moving under bullets and shells to get flour.
Nour Krayyem's family are large in numbers and love. 20 of them, 7 of which is immediate to her, are martyred. There are 16 left. 7 adults, 9 children. Please help evacuate them all to Egypt for safety!
Dr Fawaz Idrees Abuziyada, a Neurosurgeon at Gaza Hospitals, & their family of 8 - wife, sons, daughters, have lost close family members, friends, multiple homes as they're displaced multiple times to the South. Please help them escape to Egypt!
@bloomfilters
One of the Youtube video that introduced me to McKinnon was made by a sex worker. So yeah .... (plus I'm starting to think that some of the most reliable analysis of sex work seems to come from sex workers themselves).
25 year old trans women Maggie want multiple gender-affirming surgeries this year. Moving 8 times in 4 year & coming off a 6 month hospitalization in 2023, she need to cover for costly out of pocket expenses, recovery, associated costs, etc. Pls donate!
Nour Saqer, 22, dental student at Al-Azhar University of Gaza, have evacuate four times. Since Oct 7, their house are decimated, they're displaced to Rafah with their family of 7 and then displaced again for the 8th times, constantly losing loved ones.
Nesma & family - dad Moenn suffering from chronic illness diabetes, high blood pressure, heart issues without meds, injured, arrested, tortured, now can' move; younger bro Mohammad also injured & can't walk & everyone else need to escape Gaza. PLS HELP!
Noor El Najjar in IT at now destroyed Palestine University & mom, dad, bro, 2 sis one of which married, lost their home & baby. The family's source of income destroyed as well. Pls help them escape Gaza for basic necessities like food, water, edu, etc.
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Save Naheed From Stage 3 Brain Cancer Growth. if they are able to treat this cancer in 4-6 months they can have a chance of higher life expectancy but if they fail Naheed will only have 1 year of survival.
Help Abd Alaziz - a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza who's been displaced 13 times - escape genocide to Egypt then to Turkey to resume his master’s degree in AI - Computer Science.
@asakapilled
This is legit bisexual erasure. It can still sometimes a little frustrating to watch an older show take one step forward & two steps back on LGBTQ+ themes even when you braced yourself for it already.
25 year old Donia Tanani aspiring translator, her husband & daughter Salma, lost their jobs, home, displaced 6 times amidst rockets, bombardment and airstrikes, starved & susceptible to disease. Please help them escape Gaza to Egypt!
@dollshojo
On the one hand, I feel like I need to watch Rose of Versaille and even some Sailor Moon to watch Utena to understand it more fully. On the other hand, I'm itching to watch it now!
@bloomfilters
There's a pathology going on in certain Marxist circle, this need to assert that their narrow interpretation of Marxism and leftism in general is superior and more authentically progressive than any other progressive movement like a self-important adolescence.
Update: doctors have diagnosed Sonja with a rare kind of cancer: B cell lymphoma, splenic marginal zone type. Luckily
@Anarchitect918
has begun chemotherapy and has been discharged from the hospital. However, now comes a long battle.
@jnoelmanuel
The amount of female character that I find okay or even good yet garner this sizable hatedom full of dudebros is one of the thing that kickstart my "animanga is kinda sexist" arc.
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Their uncle Mohammed and his five children need his donation to rebuild their lives from the ashes of genocide. The fundraiser already lost their grandma due to shortage of medical supplies. Let's not let that happen to their uncle and his little ones.
Cruelty Free Meals for North Gaza by Abood, Amjad, Mahmoud, Walid & Mo. Donations will enable them to get food, beverages, spices, utensils, and containers for distribution + help Mo hand out water in in the tent camp in Deir al-Balah Central Gaza.
@jnoelmanuel
Fair. I'm starting to come around to that mentality as well. Exceptions certainly exist, but most animanga written by men really tends to write female character poorly. They're not so bad as to attract venomous dudebro hatedom as they often do though.
IT student Qamar & parents, brothers, sisters displaced many times, now in tent in Rafah susceptible to the elements, lost relatives & friends, jobless thus cannot travel to Egypt. Please help them escape there to attain a modicum of security!
Nabeela, her husband Hassan, their 6 kids Ali, Ismail, Ahmad, Dalya, Mayar & Kareem who severely injured without medical care thus risk infection, all displaced many times now in Rafah in unsanitary makeshift tent starving. Please help them escape Gaza!
Mohmmed Alshaer's family - sis Hanaa & Sawsan & 2 others each with 4 kids aged 3-15 & 1 sis's husband Jaber who's doing volunteer work in Gaza - are facing starvation daily, esp after being homeless after evacuating from rafah. Pls help them escape Gaza!
Carey Moreno was diagnosed with breast cancer in Fall 2023, is going through chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, including a double vasectomy on Apr 23rd. All money will go to medical bills raising her son, living her life.
Noor El Najjar, 21, an IT student at Palestine University, her family - mom, dad, bro, 2 sis, one of whom married, lost their home and baby and source of revenue. Please help them travel out of Gaza to live!!!!
Abdullah al-Ghafari & his family - wife, parents, 2 kids one of which just turn 3 - has lost 100 family members, one is his sis's unborn kid due to white phosphorus exposure. 3 of his cousin's kids died as well. Help this animal loving man & his family!
This person's daughter was born in the genocide. The kid having problem with shortness of breath & the conditions in Rafah prevent full treatment. She & her family must evacuate to Egypt asap to sustain her daughter's lives. Please donate to help!
@linesinmotion
Fow what it's worth, I think you're the best Anituber around right now. I want my writing in .... anything really ... to be at least half as concise and clear and detailed and informative as you do. Your script is impeccable everytime.
Rashad, a 4 and 1/2 month old kid from Yemen, has a kidney cancer. After removing the tumour, chemo sessions + the surgery to remove the right kidney, Rashad needs more surgery to remove more lymph nodes from his abdomen. The next surgery's in May 30th.
@gabeatethesoap
Maybe I'm tooting my own horns vs selective memories, but when I was a teens incognizance of concepts of misogyny (yet admittedly participated in it), I watched Nana (didn't finished it) and I didn't remember being annoyed by Hachi at all. I still don't get why people feel that.
@thrasherxy
AOC's bill does not specify any sort of penal punishments for offenders yet so let's see how this goes. You're right to call out potential for carceralism (for minors) here, but you maybe are downplaying the harm inflicted on the victims of these two boys here.
In Sudan, Abeer and her family - 17 children, 10 women, and 5 elders with chronic conditions were displaced 8 times, is in Northwest Kordofan which lacks basic needs, mother + younger sister are asthmatic. Mother require Cataract operation in the eye.
Malak, an IT student, her youngest sis Masa sick with Hepatitis, her dad afflicted with heart disease, her mother who lost her livelihoods and her sis Mais need this donation to restart their lives in Egypt. Please donate!
Palestinian-Canadian Bafi Ifrange desperately need to help their bro & his family, incl. young kids, to escape the genocide in Gaza & the famine & destruction therein. Pls donate to cover for their application fee & initial settlement in Canada!
@gabeatethesoap
I'm watching Fruits Basket - one of the most popular shojo aka TONS OF WOMEN CONSUMED IT - during the part when Yuki is narrating about his struggle with isolation, ostracization and parental neglect aka A MALE CHARACTER GOING THROUGH LONELINESS (AND MUCH WORSE)
@asexualthot24
I find her to be a very charming lead so definitely not "lacking in personality". At times I wonder if people conflate altruism (which is applicable to Tohru pre & post character development) with docility & meekness for the OP's post to even be producible.
Help Nermeen Evacuate from Gaza and Rebuild her Dreams in Digital Marketing! Their family have gone everywhere from northern Gaza Strip to the southern part finding no shelter until settling in a tent in Khan Yunis where shelling happen constantly.
Nada Hassan & her family - dad who had a transportation company, older bro Abdul Karim, bro Mohammed, older married sis Susan pregnant in the 7th month, lil sis Dima - have their home, edu & careers destroyed, displaced 6 times. Please help them!