Re: [News] Japan's New Export

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Fish Eye no Miko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>  > Japanese manga cover an amazing range.  There are manga
>>> > for all age levels and interests.  The Japanese manga world
>>> > is actually highly structured with clearly defined markets that
>>> > range from love-starved women to sex-starved perverts.
>>> So if you're a woman and "needing it", you're love-starved.
>>> If you're male and in the same boat, you're sex-starved... and a
>>> pervert. 
>>Where does it say the perverts are male?  How do you know the
>>writer's not referring to perverts of both genders?
> 
> Because it is being contrasted with "love-starved women".  Although
> the comparison does not literally say that only male perverts are
> being referred to, sentence structure can imply something beyond the
> literal words. 

Indeed.  And on that note, is anybody else more annoyed by the fact this 
says manga aims at markets which range from "sex comics for women" to 
"sex comics for men"?  How flattering!

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