Sparkles
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- Oh, I wish you would fix the link. As a big comic book fan, I want to see.
(posted to Sexism in Comics (big surprise there..)) - That is completely unfair, to say that American comics ONLY started reflecting positively on women BECAUSE of Sailor Moon and anime. No. I hear a lot of BS about how anime is the only reason American comics do X and
(posted to Anime and feminism) - I loved Gert so much! Claudia, I was speaking more about comics than about cartoons, but there have been comics for girls that were about things other than parties and boys. Remember that a huge difference between American and Japanese
(posted to Anime and feminism) - Hey, lay off Mary Jane Watson-Parker. She's awesome. She beat up Chameleon on her own. She also maintains a successful career as a model and keeps her own name hyphenated when she and Peter Parker get married. Yeah, she's sexualized
(posted to Buffy and Penny: A Feminist Reading of Dr. Horrible?) - That sounds like my life. I'm working 3 jobs to pay for this crap.
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Responses to Comments from Sparkles
- , I would have to agree with the rest of the posters here. Umm I think the article and the post was bullshit. Not to mention, that there was not mention of LDRs that aren't exactly voluntary. Like deployment. My (posted to Date local.)
- The anime genre is far from misogynist, and is often very feminist; and at times very radical and going as far as advocating matriarchy. Anime in the US is cherry picked for the male gamer population in the US, which (posted to Women in Anime)
- OMG! This happened to me. We were in Social Ed a few years ago and we had some Pro-Lifers come in and explain to us that "abortion is bad" and they then proceeded to show us pictures of blended up (posted to Maybe you didn't know this, but no one gets raped anymore, and certainly, no one ever gets pregnant from rape. )
- I just listened to the audio book version and couldn't believe it--I had to google "Edward + mysogynist" just to see if anyone else in the world was picking up on the controlling, totally scary relationship vibe touted by this (posted to Misogyny in Popular Teen Literature? )
- Unfortunately, I think we're competitive, hierarchical critters, by nature or nurture or both, and this is how girls establish the pecking order and enforce conformity.games (posted to Ending Relational Aggression Among Girls)
