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[–]penelopekitty 20 insightful - 3 fun20 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Personally, I think it is bizarre that any adult would be so into cartoons. In my opinion it signifies arrested development and lack of cultural literacy and sophistication. Call me a snob - I don't give a shit. These are not adult interests.

Dr. Ray Blanchard has a theory about why so many trans are into anime having to do with identifying with soft, girly characters. There was also a long analysis of the connection on Medium that has since been deleted - I'm sure for being 'transphobic.' It's messed up, right along with the 'Bronies.'

[–]SharpTomorrow 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You could make the exact same point for "super hero" movies, star wars, dungeons and dragons and most of entertainment. Of course it's childish. But so is porn.

Dr. Ray Blanchard has a theory about why so many trans are into anime having to do with identifying with soft, girly characters.

I don't think they are into anime so much as they are into something called "Hentai" which has a lot of sexual fetishes derived from Japanese folklore, like "futanari", creatures with a female appearance and male sex organs.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 15 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

You could make the exact same point for "super hero" movies, star wars, dungeons and dragons and most of entertainment.

And I absolutely would make that exact point. I agree with Rod Liddle, who wrote in this week's Spectator:

Kidultry is just one more facet of the don't-judge-me cretinous society we now all inhabit and which I refer to as the Disenlightenment. We need much more intellectual snobbery and also the rehabilitation of passé concepts such as embarrassment, stigma and shame. I will judge you, whether you like it or not, you stunted halfwit.

Edit: Gosh. Rather touched a nerve here, didn't I?

[–]tea4two 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The problem is that "anime" is just like saying "filmed entertainment". Just like there are art films, there are sophisticated animated movies that tackle difficult problems (like, say, Grave of the fireflies) and there is... drivel.

What I see as a problem in this case is the kind of media being consumed: with anime you have a whole segment of the industry creating escapist fantasies for isolated young men with no prospects, the intersection of a Venn diagram of high school nostalgia, misogyny, and sexualization of young, compliant girls.

It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Grave of the fireflies

Oh, shit, it' s that movie with the kid and his younger sister, right? Why did you make me remember it? Sigh...

[–]tea4two 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's the one. With the bomb drop and the radiation poisoning and the human suffering of it all.

It's one of those incredible movies I never want to see again.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have watched it once and never again myself. It was incredibly intense, but definitely something I am never going to watch again.