For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
It really is possible to enjoy something while also accepting there's problems and issues with it, especially when it comes to who is absorbing the messages it has.
My favorite novel of all time is Dune and its gender politics alone are fuuuuuuuuuucked. If I was showing a child of mine that book for the first time I'd at the very least talk about that, among other issues in it because I don't think entertainment products must go entirely without criticism or critical discussion "or else the job of fiction is to be perfect and unproblematic in any way."
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It wasn't just a societal structure; until the Universal Super Being showed up, his fiction stated that men could only do these superpowers and women could only do those superpowers and in fact were terrified of the men's side of the superpowers as a plot point.
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Maybe you're right; it's been a while since I read the book and was mostly going off of decades-old recollections.
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