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What are you watching (Sentai edition)
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04-09-2021, 05:21 PM
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dreamcastegirl
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
tomos
I just find it wrong that no English-speaking commentators ever seemed to have a problem with things like magical girl shows that don't have male transforming characters, granted it's anime and a different type of thing so arguably not so in your face but you are still teaching restrictive gender roles to kids
No. The reason no one cared about male representation in magical girl media is because a.) the genre was denigrated for a very long time as being "for girls" as if such was explicitly negative, and only really captured a male audience through the deconstruction of the genre in shows such as the rightly acclaimed
Madoka
, and b.) male representation is the
social default
, so to use an example such as the above, to suggest that we shouldn't ask for non-male characters in traditionally male genres because there are already shows "for girls" comes across as saying that others should not seek to see themselves better represented in media, whilst also complaining that your vanilla ice cream does not taste enough of vanilla.
I don't wish to sound as if I am picking on you, because I don't intend to do that, but the idea that there is a completely equal scale, and that men might suddenly suffer if more female or non-binary characters are introduced into media is an idea that I would really sit down and think about if I were in your position. I might be misinterpreting what you say though, as I'm not exactly clear on what you meant towards the end of your post, and you don't have to listen to me because, if anything is apparent from our short conversations, it should be clear that I am akin to Medea, lol, and will go to great lengths to express loathing for heteronormative social expectations, but going forward, it hurts no one to have more varied casts—it does not "ruin childhoods" or take away media from the past, it simply presents a new way... in which companies can sell products to larger demographics now that apparently non-male viewers are a desirable market.
Regarding
Sun Vulcan
though, I've never heard of anyone being outraged that the core team from a show made in 1981 were all men. Gosh, you know, that's a
lot
of shows from 1981. It's important to have context, to be aware of social conditions, and it's equally important to say that now, several decades on, without changing the past, we can definitely tell broader stories.
IDK, tomos, all art is political, and all issues are political, as our boy Orwell says. Make of that what you will.
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