Okay, YOU'RE not making me worried. THEY are. Not you.
Do you know why there are so many female characters who like fruit (Colette comes to mind) in Tales games? Because it's supposed to be an suggestively girly and virginal food. It's pretty and colorful, it smells good, it's delicate, it's a little sweet and tart, it's juicy, it's expensive as hell... ._. Of course real people don't think about this, but you hear a lot about it in the anime world. By contrast, dried fish in Japan are kind of homey and unglamourous, smelly, cost-effective, utterly lifeless and cold, and basically just the kind of thing a 50-year-old housewife back in the country would make (homemade pickles have even bigger problems with this). Take from this what you will. I myself sort of think it's like when Americans call a woman a cold fish, or a lollipop/toothbrush (don't want someone else to use it for the first time).
They do link manliness/virility/toughness with a preference for meat or savory foods (see also: Lloyd and Reid's preferences), so it's not like men don't escape it completely, but I don't see many people drawing them opening their mouths wide for strawberries covered in dewdrops (unless it is fanservice or just fanwork. Mm, Lloyd eating strawberries). Or making a whole series where they go on about how male otaku are like string beans [or whatever small and phallic vegetable you like].
I, like...I feel as if not everybody---especially younger, less confident, and more vulnerable women in a man's world---can tell when a manga series is preaching bullshit. I'm afraid that girls are going to take this stuff to heart and start calling each other dried fish, and then the females will be enforcing a double standard. ._. I wonder if anyone could be that silly...but how the heck should I know?
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Date: 2007-09-27 02:10 am (UTC)Do you know why there are so many female characters who like fruit (Colette comes to mind) in Tales games? Because it's supposed to be an suggestively girly and virginal food. It's pretty and colorful, it smells good, it's delicate, it's a little sweet and tart, it's juicy, it's expensive as hell... ._. Of course real people don't think about this, but you hear a lot about it in the anime world. By contrast, dried fish in Japan are kind of homey and unglamourous, smelly, cost-effective, utterly lifeless and cold, and basically just the kind of thing a 50-year-old housewife back in the country would make (homemade pickles have even bigger problems with this). Take from this what you will. I myself sort of think it's like when Americans call a woman a cold fish, or a lollipop/toothbrush (don't want someone else to use it for the first time).
They do link manliness/virility/toughness with a preference for meat or savory foods (see also: Lloyd and Reid's preferences), so it's not like men don't escape it completely, but I don't see many people drawing them opening their mouths wide for strawberries covered in dewdrops (unless it is fanservice or just fanwork. Mm, Lloyd eating strawberries). Or making a whole series where they go on about how male otaku are like string beans [or whatever small and phallic vegetable you like].
I, like...I feel as if not everybody---especially younger, less confident, and more vulnerable women in a man's world---can tell when a manga series is preaching bullshit. I'm afraid that girls are going to take this stuff to heart and start calling each other dried fish, and then the females will be enforcing a double standard. ._. I wonder if anyone could be that silly...but how the heck should I know?