Re: [OT][STRIPS] Great quotes . . .

"Fish Eye no Miko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 
> Ok, you know what?  Instead of going 'round and 'round about this,
> let me tell you why it pissed me off so much:
> 
> I'm a  fan of a lot of "nerdy" things; anime, comics, fantasy, etc. 
> Most of the fans of these things appear to be male.  Of course,
> reading about it, you'd thing there ARE no women in these fandoms. 
> How often has AS talked about how "hot" <insert female character's
> name> is?  Talked about a female character's breasts?  What about
> the "Have you ever had an alien girlfreind?" thing (No, I've never
> has one, being, ya know.. a straight woman).  And the recent thing
> about _Reign_ supposedly "For the ladies..." Well, congratulations,
> you finally noticed! I see "polls" on this and other "fannish" ngs
> about, "Would you like to have sex with <insert female character's
> name>?"  And don't give me that BS that "Gee, maybe they're also
> talking to lesbian women!" (yeah, right). And as for, "Well, they're
> only addressing the guys."  Really?  Then why is that not prefaced
> with "For the guys" or something?  Without that, it does feel like
> tey are addressing the whole ng, and assuming that we're all staight
> men.  Not to mention the many posts and threads about female 
> characters' anatomy, etc. It's extremely disheartening be in a
> fandom and watching fellow fans reducing women to body parts, and
> ignoring the existence of female fans altogether.  So, into all this
> comes you with this "great" quote, that, frankly, just feels like
> more of the crap I deal with all the time in these fandoms.
> It was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

Catherine, you are, of course, right.  I feel for you, honestly, because 
I think that in many ways it would really stink to be a woman in this 
hobby, and that's a big reason why.  Unfortunately, that's also the way 
of the world.  I get a similar sort of feeling every time some American 
here makes comments with the implicit assumption that everyone else is 
also American; I get it in real life when people assume I'm Christian.  
That's just the way it goes, however, when you're in the minority.  It's 
aggravating, but the majority is always going to contain a bunch of 
jerks, just because it IS the majority and statistical probability 
indicates a large number of jerks and people who are fairly thoughtless.  
It's not even just the fans...plenty of otherwise perfectly good anime 
and manga contains elements that are obviously thrown in to entice males, 
and serve no purpose besides that.  Relatively few have the same thing 
for females (yes, there's Utena and Weiss Kreuz and Fushigi Yuugi, 
BUT...they're still very much the minority).

But unfortunately, that's also just life.  You can ask people to think a 
little more, and some will, but there'll always be more people that 
don't.  I don't want you to give up, because I enjoy your contributions 
to this group, but I'm afraid you're really aggravating yourself to no 
avail, because this attitude is never going to change as long as men 
remain the vast majority of anime fans (of course, these attitudes 
contribute to that situation, no doubt).  I think it's great you try to 
fight it, but is it really worth getting this frustrated about?  I'm 
afraid I just don't think it will do you, or the situation, any good.

Blade
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