Comments | chiyo_no_hikari: I'll save my own damn self, thank you.

chiyo_no_hikari

I'll save my own damn self, thank you.

Jul 22, 2009 23:59

What with ComiCon upon us, I thought I should share this very interesting roundtable discussion I found concerning the way women and media aimed specifically at girls is viewed by fandom at large. I will warn that this (and my comments below) are almost painfully nerdy. Do be warned! (ETA: This commentary became a freakin' novel. It is LONG. I ( Read more... )

comic book girl, i am a giant dork, feminists are scary!

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have a novella hurkon July 23 2009, 12:33:19 UTC

Very well said. Thank you for that ( ... )

cure_marine July 23 2009, 21:34:29 UTC

Dude...we seriously need to sit down and have coffee sometime!

You've pretty much summed up my feelings towards fictional strong female leads. I never liked A Separate Peace because I thought the two leads were the extremes of what I don't like about men - one was pushed around and the other was an asshole living vicariously. At first, I didn't want to touch Joy Luck Club because it seemed so highly acclaimed by Asianphiles, neither did I like my crew being called "The Joy Luck Club" because we were Asian. One day, I picked it up, and I liked it based on differences between second and first gen. Asian Americans. It was not until I saw the movie I regarded it as a feminist piece only because I thought, "Cool! There are actual AsianAm women who could ACT!" Sadly, not many can.

Sailor Moon also changed my life the same way it changed your's. People dog on Sailor Moon because she fights in a mini-skirt, but it's nothing worse than say...Ikki Tousen. I grew up liking magical girl stuff because I could relate - clumsy unachiever girl ( ... )

red_toupee July 24 2009, 05:24:09 UTC

Good analysis. I too remember the thrill of watching the Sailor Moon movies and getting my hands on my first sailor moon manga (Sailor Moon Super S Volume 1). I hadn't seen the tv series as a kid, so it was a whole new wonderful world that my sisters and I discovered. I was in between 8th grade and starting high school... and my life was never the same.

Tough in my experience, it is also very difficult for some guys to admit that they like something intended for a girl audience. I think that girls can get away with saying that they like Cowboy Bebop or Hellsing a lot easier than a guy can say that he genuinely likes Sailor Moon. I think that girls in some ways have more of a two way street coming to them.......