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.

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Re: I think Theodor Kaluza will not be please with me for using his theories for fandom.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck, it's at the posting macro levels now?

I mean, the "it's a shounen manga, it is not meant for the teh ladies" excuse is so, so weak. Does this mean that we should encourage such mediocrity for treating half of his cast? This is like excusing Twilight on the grounds it is made for hormonal young girls, so they should enjoy Edward being a creepy motherfucker to Bella.

Fucking word. And as for the 'you're reading to much into it? That is the classic excuse that gets used when people A says something person B don't want to hear. "I don't want to hear about sexism in my shonen, so you're just reading too much into it.' "I don't want to hear about racial issues in Lost, so you're just reading too much into it."

Re: I think Theodor Kaluza will not be please with me for using his theories for fandom.

[devimelete.livejournal.com]

That is the classic excuse that gets used when people A says something person B don't want to hear. "I don't want to hear about sexism in my shonen, so you're just reading too much into it.' "I don't want to hear about racial issues in Lost, so you're just reading too much into it."

I've already put my comment in the meta you mentioned, but I'll repeat it again: You may not like his work on whatever aspects you find yourself disagreeing, but at least you show the honesty of pointing those out.

Being a fan also means you are being a loyal critic.

Oh, fuck, it's at the posting macro levels now?

By the first commentator who is made of complete fail? Yes. People keep on questioning him on his opinions, and he keeps on repeating that he doesn't care such to a point where he puts in a "WHAT?" macro by other commentators.

Dude. What the hell.

[strange_quark]

By the first commentator who is made of complete fail? Yes. People keep on questioning him on his opinions, and he keeps on repeating that he doesn't care such to a point where he puts in a "WHAT?" macro by other commentators.

I find this infinitely amusing, to be honest. It's just so clear that he expected to blather on and scold all the wimminz for harshing his ninja high, but the second anyone with half a brain took him to task for his stupidity he spammed us with macros to try and make himself look ~witty~ when in reality he doesn't know how to respond.

It was basically the internet version of an bitter concession speech. So I'm not angry because we won, and the best part is that he knows it :D

[devimelete.livejournal.com]

Hah. That's what it looked like to me too, which make even more fail-tastic. Although I did laugh at the Obama macro.

Re: I think Theodor Kaluza will not be please with me for using his theories for fandom.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wow, he is really, really made of fail. And the fact that he's posting macros... just shows how much so.