Get Your Rifles, Boys & Girls - It's Hunting Season

[redbrunja]

autoschismatic  has an amazing and absolutely dead-on article about Kishimoto and his kunoichi and the problems therein. This has also brought all the misogynics to the yard.

Basically, they're saying, 'so what if Kishimoto is sexist? It's just shonen manga, it's made for boys anyway (implication: it doesn't matter if boys are taught that women are less than), you're just thinking too hard about this.'

As I'm sure you can all imagine, I look that as meekly as Maka would, because everyone knows that girls can't be kickass in shonen manga lololol.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

What I really liked about her post was the way she presented it--in a level-headed and rational way, using evidence to support her statements rather than just saying them, and the way she did give credit to Kishimoto for trying. Becuase I do have a problem when people don't give credit where credit is due (I also have a soft spot for Kishimoto because of my exposure to Bleach before Naruto).

It's all right to rage once in a while--I do it a lot--but it's really great when someone presents a problem in an educated way in order to call attention and not alienate people.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

And I really liked how she teased out the difference between a character's actions and personality and that character in a larger context.