Just look at animemes banning the use of tr*p. Of course not every anime is misogynist but... there’s kinda a lot. And I think there’s a lot of blatant misogyny that is definitely noticed, and people who watch those scenes know it’s bad, but if you keep watching that shit over and over, even if you know it’s bad, it just get burned into your brain. But more importantly, a lot of anime just treats women as a whole differently than the male characters. Their drawn slightly differently, they act slightly differently, and they continue to be treated as objects, albeit in more subtle ways. On their own or in a bubble these grievances wouldn’t be a big deal, but it does add up. Idk, shit just sucks and it makes it hard to get into shows I would really like otherwise...

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was trying to be ironic with the AnJ thing.

      Like I said I'm drunk AF and I'm trying to abbreviate 70+ years of niche animation/cultural history into a giant shitpost so I had to take some liberties... but still consider the difference in female characters from the 80s to the 90s and beyond. Lynn Minmei is arguably a well drawn out character (especially movie vers) in spite of a big part of her character being just that she's pretty, and then you get the cast of say Clannad with it's infantilised moe bullshit. It's a gradual and uneven transition from Lena Inverse to Asuna, but it's there.

        • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I dunno, the post-war arc kinda gave Minmei a lot even as it reduced Hikaru (and Misa, to an extent) into a blithering idiot. But yeah fuck Tomino and his super weird views on sex and gender.