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Olive: you can't punch ovaries
Olive: it's like how when people try to induce miscarriage by beating women, they just end up with a beaten woman
Last discussed here---it turns out that's not an admonishment for fangirls after all, because Misaki doesn't know at all what seme, sasoi-uke, and yaoi are when Usui does that. It's more of an admonishment for anyone who loves to dress up as a guy, but who maybe wants to do it in degrees? And not get in trouble for it at school or GET ASSRAPED like in a yaoi manga? Some control over her own life and sexuality?
How can I not feel a stone fall in the pit of my stomach when Misaki is dazzled by Usui's endless wisdom or attracted by his harassment? When she thanks him for telling her not to compensate for the girls at her school being horrified and disgusted and frightened for year after year? Obviously women and men must coexist and respect one another. It's that someone always has to be broken of their belief that women need help and care and honor even more than men, because Japan is possibly the most sexist developed country anywhere?
It's that it always happens to the girl, in manga aimed at girls. It's that this is made out to be the pinnacle of knowledge, the final answer. It's that I totally do not see this in the stuff for boys. (Please, someone...anyone...prove me wrong?)
Also, am I not supposed to be disgusted when they put that in the same chapter where Usui dresses up as a Navy colonel and blathers in English, YES WE ALL KNOW WHO HE REPRESENTS, as if to silence me with titillation.
What's happening? Is this self-conscious? Is it mocking the stereotypes and the kind of manga that portray them? Or is it just what it is?
In any case, EPIC FUCKING FAIL. Thank you, please never come again.
(1:26:55 AM) Me: As soon as I'm done being mad at a manga
(1:27:03 AM) My Excellent Comrade: :o
(1:30:33 AM) Me: Shouting in my LJ
(1:30:35 AM) Me: Fun and easy!
(1:30:42 AM) Me: Instant entry!
(1:30:57 AM) Me: Just add vitriol!
I am so annoyed by this that I caught myself fantasizing that the author herself doesn't like writing this. I am on the verge of burning these books except that I feel bad for the paper. (That's right, it's not worth the paper it's written on to me.)
I'm not even going to get into L2...well, not in detail. Basically a couple days ago I spent about 6 hours doing the first Noblesse quest so I could have a third class change, 2/3 of it porting and lagging because the computer I'm using isn't very fancy---all that, and one time I was so bored and fed up that instead of clicking on the gatekeeper, I accidentally clicked on the class change NPC next to her. AND LO AND BEHOLD: it made Irie into an Arcana Lord ON THE SPOT.
I guess I'd be happier if I hadn't wasted all that time on Noblesse. I don't even care about that rite nao ._.
Also, all my characters will get a second sub class soon...and a GM talked to me and gave me every buff in the book out of nowhere...I gotta get back to them.
Olive: it's like how when people try to induce miscarriage by beating women, they just end up with a beaten woman
Last discussed here---it turns out that's not an admonishment for fangirls after all, because Misaki doesn't know at all what seme, sasoi-uke, and yaoi are when Usui does that. It's more of an admonishment for anyone who loves to dress up as a guy, but who maybe wants to do it in degrees? And not get in trouble for it at school or GET ASSRAPED like in a yaoi manga? Some control over her own life and sexuality?
How can I not feel a stone fall in the pit of my stomach when Misaki is dazzled by Usui's endless wisdom or attracted by his harassment? When she thanks him for telling her not to compensate for the girls at her school being horrified and disgusted and frightened for year after year? Obviously women and men must coexist and respect one another. It's that someone always has to be broken of their belief that women need help and care and honor even more than men, because Japan is possibly the most sexist developed country anywhere?
It's that it always happens to the girl, in manga aimed at girls. It's that this is made out to be the pinnacle of knowledge, the final answer. It's that I totally do not see this in the stuff for boys. (Please, someone...anyone...prove me wrong?)
Also, am I not supposed to be disgusted when they put that in the same chapter where Usui dresses up as a Navy colonel and blathers in English, YES WE ALL KNOW WHO HE REPRESENTS, as if to silence me with titillation.
What's happening? Is this self-conscious? Is it mocking the stereotypes and the kind of manga that portray them? Or is it just what it is?
In any case, EPIC FUCKING FAIL. Thank you, please never come again.
(1:26:55 AM) Me: As soon as I'm done being mad at a manga
(1:27:03 AM) My Excellent Comrade: :o
(1:30:33 AM) Me: Shouting in my LJ
(1:30:35 AM) Me: Fun and easy!
(1:30:42 AM) Me: Instant entry!
(1:30:57 AM) Me: Just add vitriol!
I am so annoyed by this that I caught myself fantasizing that the author herself doesn't like writing this. I am on the verge of burning these books except that I feel bad for the paper. (That's right, it's not worth the paper it's written on to me.)
I'm not even going to get into L2...well, not in detail. Basically a couple days ago I spent about 6 hours doing the first Noblesse quest so I could have a third class change, 2/3 of it porting and lagging because the computer I'm using isn't very fancy---all that, and one time I was so bored and fed up that instead of clicking on the gatekeeper, I accidentally clicked on the class change NPC next to her. AND LO AND BEHOLD: it made Irie into an Arcana Lord ON THE SPOT.
I guess I'd be happier if I hadn't wasted all that time on Noblesse. I don't even care about that rite nao ._.
Also, all my characters will get a second sub class soon...and a GM talked to me and gave me every buff in the book out of nowhere...I gotta get back to them.
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I'm afraid you got it in one. It is for this reason that I am very careful what I read. Some shoujo is nice and subversive, but a whole lot of it is just dreadfully distressing. And yaoi is generally worse. And, frankly, it kind of freaks me out just how much US girls seem to eat this stuff up. We don't need to be going backwards here, people!
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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)