Some of the cultural imports from anime/manga I could definitely have done without. The most disgusting, to my mind, is the lolicon/shotacon -- sexualized childlike images. Yuck!
I also don't like the misogyny in so much of hentai and manga/anime in general. Japan is a much more patriarchal culture than the West, and boy you can tell. Even "strong" female characters are usually all bark but no bite, or are raped or killed or beaten to remind us where a woman's place is. They're there for eye candy, or to be the Girlfriend for the Hero. Female characters often have an incredibly passive role in the story. There are exceptions to this, of course (and misogyny in Western writing as well) but it's just so BLATANT in Japanese works.
Yaoi doesn't bother me, as such (I quite like slash based off Western works, which is sort of the same thing) but the uke/seme thing needs to DIE. It's just a way of making one character the 'man' and the other the 'woman', one dominant and one submissive. Not exactly revolutionary. It's such a narrow view of sexuality that, unfortunately, has become so widespread.
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Date: 2006-07-28 12:30 am (UTC)I also don't like the misogyny in so much of hentai and manga/anime in general. Japan is a much more patriarchal culture than the West, and boy you can tell. Even "strong" female characters are usually all bark but no bite, or are raped or killed or beaten to remind us where a woman's place is. They're there for eye candy, or to be the Girlfriend for the Hero. Female characters often have an incredibly passive role in the story. There are exceptions to this, of course (and misogyny in Western writing as well) but it's just so BLATANT in Japanese works.
Yaoi doesn't bother me, as such (I quite like slash based off Western works, which is sort of the same thing) but the uke/seme thing needs to DIE. It's just a way of making one character the 'man' and the other the 'woman', one dominant and one submissive. Not exactly revolutionary. It's such a narrow view of sexuality that, unfortunately, has become so widespread.