I was reading a pretty-okay article about doujin circles from 1996 and the writer said the cons were filled with "virginal girls." Why oh why do you need to weigh in on their sex lives when saying young girls write their own manga? I also hate the absolutely disgusting look so many people in america take with Japanese school girls. Not saying Japan is totally innocent here, but the whole "yeah all Japanese school girls are super-sexualised. I know because every piece of Japanese culture I look at contains sexualized children" and never realise that this is a statement on their own failure.

  • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I was about to sick @Yuritopiaposadism on you for the history of Yuri but before I did I looked at the articles I read about the history of the Yuri genre and realised they were all after 2010. Your point stands, western weebs are on par with :gamer-gulag: without fail.

    Here are some articles in case you're interested in what I'm on about:

    Yuri isn't made for Men, 2017

    Defining Yuri Manga, also 2017 by an EN publisher

    Yuri Manga, and Indepth Look, 2014

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      In the end, weebs perspective on anime cannot be trusted, as they overlook or actively exacerbate the flaws and are part of the problem, but the non-anime watching public, or even the people who have watched a couple but aren't really into it, cannot be trusted, as they do not understand the full depth and parameters of what anime is and can be, and often hold racist stereotypes about Japan in the heart of their argument. So it follows that the only based people involved in this whole debacle are Hirohiko Araki and Usada Pekora.

      joking aside, I'll take a look at the articles, thanks for the sources. I really wish everyone involved in the whole discussion of anime in the west weren't so disgusting in most of the views they profess.