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feotakahari“The problem is that men come along, see a genre that is fundamentally not about them, and then co-opt it and make it about women suffering instead. It's like they can't accept, for one moment, that a story in the universe exists and isn't about how great men are. Men also write grimdark stories where everyone suffers, of course, but it by no means makes up the majority, or even remotely close to a majority, of all stories written by men. Yet 100% of Magical Girl stories written by men are about specifically women suffering. Do you not see the discrepency? That being said, even if 100% of all stories written by men were about suffering, not just the Magical Girl ones, it'd still be dubious for them to write Magical Girl stories - because it's about them taking a genre meant for women and instead making it about what men want to see. 90% of anime is already heavily male-oriented, and yet men seem intent on making the remaining 10% cater to them too."
This post physically nauseates me. That is not a figure of speech.
I'm trying to figure out how to express how I feel about the idea of genres as walled gardens, into which some kinds of people can enter while others must be kept out. The closest I can come is to try and imagine how I would feel if someone told me that it was wrong or bad for someone like me to write stories that were "meant for" someone else. As it turns out, how I feel is like I'm going to throw up.
This post physically nauseates me. That is not a figure of speech.
I'm trying to figure out how to express how I feel about the idea of genres as walled gardens, into which some kinds of people can enter while others must be kept out. The closest I can come is to try and imagine how I would feel if someone told me that it was wrong or bad for someone like me to write stories that were "meant for" someone else. As it turns out, how I feel is like I'm going to throw up.
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Date: 2019-01-15 10:49 am (UTC)(I don't even mind the criticism that some people write "bad Magical Girl" stories, because I do agree on that part -- Magical Girl stories that aren't ultimately power fantasies, I think fail to meet the requirements of genre and thus fail as Magical Girl stories, becoming simply stories about girls with magic powers. But see how I can make that criticism without turning it into janky "men and women are Different and Write Different Stories and therefore Genres Are Walled Gardens" radfem shit?)