You know I'm with you on the points you've raised. ;p
Re: blog, Thing is, manga and anime are filled with stereotypical female characters. Why pick on that ONE series? There are loads of other series that offer a more balanced representation of women, so what if KHR isn't one of them? They're not even strongly insinuating what a woman's role SHOULD be - any careful critical reading should prove that.
Ok, I'll get her beef with the KHR women, but there's just shallow character development, and then there's *teh gasp* social implications! Assuming that she's from a fairly good school that gives her the high horse to do this critique, any responsible critic CAN MAKE the difference when they study the text carefully. I'm not seeing that applied to that blog entry. If anything she's just speaking very generally and from a very loose framework. What makes this irksome is that she tries to sound oh-so-smart about it when her argument can barely hold water in a debate, let alone an argumentative paper.
Pseudo-intellect, there for smarter people to pick on, hoo-hah!
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Date: 2008-11-18 10:27 am (UTC)Re: blog, Thing is, manga and anime are filled with stereotypical female characters. Why pick on that ONE series? There are loads of other series that offer a more balanced representation of women, so what if KHR isn't one of them? They're not even strongly insinuating what a woman's role SHOULD be - any careful critical reading should prove that.
Ok, I'll get her beef with the KHR women, but there's just shallow character development, and then there's *teh gasp* social implications! Assuming that she's from a fairly good school that gives her the high horse to do this critique, any responsible critic CAN MAKE the difference when they study the text carefully. I'm not seeing that applied to that blog entry. If anything she's just speaking very generally and from a very loose framework. What makes this irksome is that she tries to sound oh-so-smart about it when her argument can barely hold water in a debate, let alone an argumentative paper.
Pseudo-intellect, there for smarter people to pick on, hoo-hah!