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Sep. 7th, 2012 07:44 amHad a bunch of errands to run yesterday.
First, since Mom is staying home from work again today (due to a dentist appointment I have at 10), we went down to Bellport to send both my remaining parcels off at the post office there. I looked around in the nearby library for anime, and picked out 11 Eyes and Special-A. Wasn't allowed to take out the latter since that one was new there.
Next stop was some house where Dad's been doing some job recently, and where me and Mom help him move some cabinets inside (and I think I was also there with him more than a year ago). On the way there, I noticed that 11 Eyes only has Japanese audio (which I would later find out as well about Special-A), but decided I might as well give it a try anyway soon as we got home.
Not much to say about our visit to the house, or the next few stops at the garden center, the shop, and the catboat. We did go to Costco, and spent some time shopping at the Savers store near there before actually shopping for groceries. While we were in there, I noticed these two small books containing cartoons that got rejected from MAD magazine. Other than that, not much.
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So, finally, we got home, and I popped the first DVD of that show in. Not even five minutes in, and already, we've got an instance of Kaori comically hitting Tadashi for getting all ditzy and everything. Not only does this also happen once in the opening theme, but Wikipedia mentions that she does this a lot to him. Fail!
(Let's put things (even further) in perspective: I continued watching Kanon after Kaori and Jun's first scene, because that was something Chellerecommended to me for not having all the bullshit that normally comes with the harem genre, at least where actual protagonist Yuichi is concerned. Watched Nichijou, because Jake asked me to watch at least up to episode 13, since it had become his new favorite not long before, and it left a good enough first impression for me to continue with it. Mon Colle Knights can stay, because I sought that show out after it stopped airing on Fox Kids (which then became Fox Box), before I became aware of all the double-standards at work. And, there are two instances in Makeruna! Makendou Z, where Mai beats up Doro for spying on her; I can forgive that, because that's two in the entire Makendou quadrilogy.)
Not long afterwards, I went on the computer to do something, and Marie called looking for Mom. I picked the phone up, and chatted with her for a bit. She asked me if anything was going on, and I said not much, but then she's like "C'mon." I told her then about what happened in that show to make me turn it right off, and she asked me what if it was the other way around. In response to the answer I gave her to that, she told me that I probably shouldn't answer like that if anyone else asks, and that I should also consider larger issues, such as certain male politicians trying to pass laws against abortion, even against rape-induced pregnancies.
(Not that I'd stand for that, or for violence against women in real life. I'm also aware that sexism happens in real life to both men and women, and that both kinds are bigger problems than anything fictional. In fiction, though, what bothers me isn't so much that guys do stupid things, girls get mad at them for what they do, or even that any abuse is presented as funny or as acceptable for relationships. It's that such things aren't played nearly so much with the gender roles reversed. Look, if people are afraid to present abuse as acceptable when its male on female, then they shouldn't be playing it female on male either. But, even if all abuse becomes unacceptable, there's still the fact that between the two sexes, only females tend to get mad at males for stuff that they do, and I already find myself hard-pressed to find it the other way around. For example, in Pokemon (Heart)Gold, (Soul)Silver, and Crystal, there's this trainer couple consisting of a Camper who is trying to impress his Picnicker girlfriend, who in turn says "I can rely on my Pokemon more than my boyfriend" (something which I intend to reverse in Parasitic Trio). Never mind that in real life, when girls do stupid things, it's not just other girls who call them out for it.)
Mom brought it up with me later on after speaking to Marie herself. Some discussion ensued, before she suggested that I try to write something myself.
I only mentioned the first one listed in the following cut, but, sure, here's some stuff I either have already written, once planned on writing, or intend to include in stuff I write in the future:
( Sexist! )
First, since Mom is staying home from work again today (due to a dentist appointment I have at 10), we went down to Bellport to send both my remaining parcels off at the post office there. I looked around in the nearby library for anime, and picked out 11 Eyes and Special-A. Wasn't allowed to take out the latter since that one was new there.
Next stop was some house where Dad's been doing some job recently, and where me and Mom help him move some cabinets inside (and I think I was also there with him more than a year ago). On the way there, I noticed that 11 Eyes only has Japanese audio (which I would later find out as well about Special-A), but decided I might as well give it a try anyway soon as we got home.
Not much to say about our visit to the house, or the next few stops at the garden center, the shop, and the catboat. We did go to Costco, and spent some time shopping at the Savers store near there before actually shopping for groceries. While we were in there, I noticed these two small books containing cartoons that got rejected from MAD magazine. Other than that, not much.
-----
So, finally, we got home, and I popped the first DVD of that show in. Not even five minutes in, and already, we've got an instance of Kaori comically hitting Tadashi for getting all ditzy and everything. Not only does this also happen once in the opening theme, but Wikipedia mentions that she does this a lot to him. Fail!
(Let's put things (even further) in perspective: I continued watching Kanon after Kaori and Jun's first scene, because that was something Chellerecommended to me for not having all the bullshit that normally comes with the harem genre, at least where actual protagonist Yuichi is concerned. Watched Nichijou, because Jake asked me to watch at least up to episode 13, since it had become his new favorite not long before, and it left a good enough first impression for me to continue with it. Mon Colle Knights can stay, because I sought that show out after it stopped airing on Fox Kids (which then became Fox Box), before I became aware of all the double-standards at work. And, there are two instances in Makeruna! Makendou Z, where Mai beats up Doro for spying on her; I can forgive that, because that's two in the entire Makendou quadrilogy.)
Not long afterwards, I went on the computer to do something, and Marie called looking for Mom. I picked the phone up, and chatted with her for a bit. She asked me if anything was going on, and I said not much, but then she's like "C'mon." I told her then about what happened in that show to make me turn it right off, and she asked me what if it was the other way around. In response to the answer I gave her to that, she told me that I probably shouldn't answer like that if anyone else asks, and that I should also consider larger issues, such as certain male politicians trying to pass laws against abortion, even against rape-induced pregnancies.
(Not that I'd stand for that, or for violence against women in real life. I'm also aware that sexism happens in real life to both men and women, and that both kinds are bigger problems than anything fictional. In fiction, though, what bothers me isn't so much that guys do stupid things, girls get mad at them for what they do, or even that any abuse is presented as funny or as acceptable for relationships. It's that such things aren't played nearly so much with the gender roles reversed. Look, if people are afraid to present abuse as acceptable when its male on female, then they shouldn't be playing it female on male either. But, even if all abuse becomes unacceptable, there's still the fact that between the two sexes, only females tend to get mad at males for stuff that they do, and I already find myself hard-pressed to find it the other way around. For example, in Pokemon (Heart)Gold, (Soul)Silver, and Crystal, there's this trainer couple consisting of a Camper who is trying to impress his Picnicker girlfriend, who in turn says "I can rely on my Pokemon more than my boyfriend" (something which I intend to reverse in Parasitic Trio). Never mind that in real life, when girls do stupid things, it's not just other girls who call them out for it.)
Mom brought it up with me later on after speaking to Marie herself. Some discussion ensued, before she suggested that I try to write something myself.
I only mentioned the first one listed in the following cut, but, sure, here's some stuff I either have already written, once planned on writing, or intend to include in stuff I write in the future:
( Sexist! )