It's difficult for me to improve my grammar sorry.
Do not worry. Keep trying and you will eventually improve (that is my case. Although they are still poor, my grammar and spelling have improved a lot since I started to participate in English-speaking boards)
Hitsugi no Chaika, it's kinda hard for me to explain without spoiling.
It's my top 1 shounen of the season.
I am afraid it has little competition in that regard.
Nonetheless maybe I will check it. I have a hard time finding modern series I like, but sometimes I have more luck when I avoid the mainstream.
I see.
So given our history with treatment of women they will always get the most hate with fiction, unless I suppose its one of those characters that act to goofy like? Well I hear the most recent case of issues against women is sexual harassment so yeah one problem replaces another cause wasn't in only like 6-7 decades women where fighting to vote. (well Im a Optimistic person but I agree it will never go away fully)
Well, how you see, it is hard writing women in fiction because, even when you are trying to make sympathetic characters, people can hate them or accuse you from sexism. Did you know that Tolkien wrote in "Laws and Customs of Eldar" -a guideline for elven behaviour in his Legendarium- that there was no difference between men and women in elven society, there were no jobs or occupations were considered improper for men or women and force someone into marriage was considered a type of rape? Well, there is many people that reads those lines and declares it is "sexist".
I guess the best a writer can make is trying to write their characters -male and female- like people. Thus, even if someone finds his/her portrayal of women or minorities faulty, the writer can tell it was never his/her intent. Writer's intent counts for a lot.
Was this thread really necessary? No offense, but sometimes I feel like some people just complain because they like hearing themselves talk. Sexism? You know I should claim sexism with all the shojo manga because they make all the men seem like stupid pretty boys who are really too high into themselves. Looking at you Ouren High School Host Club.
You know, I was thinking alongside those lines. Okay, the thread opener has got fed up with the manga and has quit (or claimed he/she did). Understandable. But it was necessary opening a thread to loudly inform everyone of you are leaving because the manga sucks and its creator sucks? It feels like provoking message board drama unnecessarily.
When I have quit a forum I merely stopped to go. I did not open threads about it.
Not to mention that it is Almost always romance in shojo like it's assuming all girls are into romance just like it assumes all boys like action and dislike romance or idea of romance. It is assumptions based on stereotypes created for the sake of convenience.
I agree, and I have not idea of where, when or why those stereotypes were born. I have read many romance shonen manga and many action shojo manga.
But readers assume all shonen is action and all shojo is romance, so they look for action in shonen and romance in shojo. Hence, writers and publishers assume that is what readers want, so they make action stories when they want to make a shonen manga and romance stories when they want to publish a shojo manga. It is a vicious cycle.
and while It is true that the series did not portray the female characters too well as strong, independent women, their value shouldn't be undermined either or that would be just as sexist to not like them because they don't meet standards, if you don't mind me saying.
I completely agree.
So if a woman is not a Xena Warrior Princess rip-off she is worthless? Is not it more sexist ASSUMING that she is worthless? You are assuming that is the intention of the creator when maybe it is you who think that she is worthless because she does not comply with your standards of what a woman must be.
Edited by Jenskott, 25 June 2014 - 01:47 PM.