I was mad and hungry when I made this~
Okay, the contrast between the realism of the shading here with the anime face is weirding me out a little.
It is hard to pick what my favorite piece of Awful Radfem Discourse is, but I think this might just win the prize.
Okay, but to answer the question. It’s more of a correlation thing.
Trans girls are often anime girls, for example, but not all anime girls are trans girls.
I’ve long had a theory that some groups that are drawn to anime are drawn to it because it telegraphs emotions in a very blatant manner.
For people around gender issues, it also often leaves facial features more vague and less gendered.
Okay, let me make a real post out of this for Prof. Sto– I mean @afloweroutofstone.
I think part of the public liking of anime and posting of anime tiddies, despite being considered low-class activities on the internet, reflects a coming meltdown in masculinity.
There’s a common perception that masculinity is essentially impervious to attack, which is driven by focusing almost entirely on men at the top and ignoring men at the bottom or treating them as non-men. (Also by ignoring what masculinity of the kind people want to attack even is.)
The real weaknesses of masculinity, however, are at the margins, not from Trudeau wearing pink. The men who are already having trouble performing masculinity and being judged wanting just… giving up on performing masculinity in terms of its integration with society.
For now, the broader status hierarchy based on performing masculinity in order to appeal to a combination of other men and neurotypical, heterosexual women, is holding.
But it’s going to erode as new, competing status hierarchies form and expand among those who have no reason to abide by their low status in the old ones. We’re seeing a war and division over them in “geek” culture, currently, but new culture hierarchy conflicts are going to spread as the gender system destabilizes.
This is one of those rebellions that begins with the peasants out in the provinces and makes its way into the city.
It’s visible in all sorts of low-status men that many of your readers would hate. But if it were already accepted, it wouldn’t be a true revolution, and this is what not being accepted looks like, in part, WRT the male gender role.
fired: Look at all these crosses, this anime must be rich with spiritual meaning!
tired: The Christian symbolism is meaningless. The director said he put them there because he thought they looked cool.
wired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because we each give religious symbols a different emotional loading, which we read into the work.
inspired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because God inspired various Japanese anime directors to put it there.
Actually, I’m reminded that the Ranma ½ anime is chock full of filler, and I’d love to see it get a gritty cyberpunk reboot, because I’m an evil person.
Somewhere in some distant alternate universe, anime girls browse a blue website, posting pictures of scantily-dressed neckbeards, arguing about their inability to see with their tiny, unrealistic eyes and bizarre body proportions.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
That’s why most Japanese stuff is anime instead of live action: too expensive to fake the backgrounds and keep finding Chinese actors who can pretend they speak “Japanese”.
I can’t believe you would publish such a slanderous ask against the country that was once the 大日本帝国, you treacherous kangaroo farmer, the light of their mighty rising sun nearly covered all of Asi–
* gasping *
* coughing *
* wheezing *
Phew, don’t know what came over me, there. One moment I was just reading Tumblr and then I just… blacked out. It was almost like that time a foreign hypernationalist ideo-virus got past my memetic barriers and infected my cyberbrain. But fortunately I got that removed. No traces left.
A-argumate, why are you looking at me like that?
Argumate-kun? Is something wrong?
i’ll leave this here without any context
anime as hyperstimulus strikes again
(the task at hand is software design, I assume)
The task at hand is always software design, for a sufficiently abstract understanding of the term “software design”.
Anime Liberation Front
People’s Liberation Front of Anime
Anime Libertarian Front
Anime Revolutionary Army
What if the secret appeal of shonen anime to western audiences is that it provides a vision of heroism untainted by protestant misanthropy
I only just got into anime and I’m shocked at how much “problematic” content there is. By which I mean I love it.
Anime is sneakily reinforcing traditional gender roles and nobody noticed because they aren’t using the Christian tradition to do so.
“sneakily”
In some ways it differs. Often, it’s the girls that are all colorful individuals with cool powers, and the dude, while the mostest powerfulest of all, is a generic cardboard stand-in.
Tenchi is the least interesting character in his own show.
In other ways it’s more obvious, like all the buckets of cuteness.
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