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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been up and down on this arc for it's treatment of the ladies. On the plus side you have Sakura being smart with Shikamaru, punching out a monster, healing people, and then bossing people around. On the minus side you have Iruka telling Sakura to get to the kitchen, Naruto telling Tsunade to get to the kitchen step back, and Hinata NOT having the epic multi-chapter fight she deserved.

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I was actually talking about Bleach's current arc. |D;

In the current arc in Naruto I have gotten frustrated a few times, but EVERY WEEK Bleach has been pissing me off.

Sorry for the confusion.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, then I agree utterly. It's terrible and just goes to show that KT doesn't know how to write a plot that not based around utterly victimizing his female leads and supporting characters.

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

KT doesn't know how to write a plot that not based around utterly victimizing his female leads and supporting characters.

Exactly. It's awful.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Such a damn shame. The early chapters were so enjoyable.