It's not really the US I'm worried about (though they're the fans I have to listen to the most, it's true). I think the sexism is part (just part) of what makes Japan's birth rate so atrociously low. The young people are changing the sexism by deciding not to live like their parents, but will it happen fast enough to improve the birth rate? (Certainly it won't happen fast enough to save certain parts of their culture---the good parts where they make beautiful houses and swords and clothing and food.) I think they have to make it up as they go along because there's so little that will tell them what's good. If this manga is the crystallization of their new, improvised ideas about equality...well, you can see why I'd get worried. It's not so much I think kids read my journal so much as if someone could please get this stuff out there maybe someone else will catch on? (It's not because I'm an old lady and I have a "kids these days!" attitude!!!!! It's my mature interest in the welfare of younger, more vulnerable people! >:D)
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Date: 2007-11-09 07:47 am (UTC)It's not so much I think kids read my journal so much as if someone could please get this stuff out there maybe someone else will catch on? (It's not because I'm an old lady and I have a "kids these days!" attitude!!!!! It's my mature interest in the welfare of younger, more vulnerable people! >:D)