a japanese tabloid mistook a porn actress for emi nitta (VA of honoka in love live), and when it hit twitter, the otaku community went nuclear over the idea of her not being “pure”
and then it turned out that it was just someone who happened to look a lot like emi
anime is a mess
Why idol culture is toxic
It’s toxic because it’s garbage straight out of the trash
fuck otaku
People see all the cool female characters in anime and think Japan is less sexist than the U.S.
Japan is actually violently obsessively sexist. The fixation there on women having value only so long as they’re youthful virgins could rival that of Medieval Europe.
As I recall idols have to sign a contract that forbids them from having boyfriends with the intent to keep them “pure” and thus favorable to their obsessive male fans
Like I have read articles talking about idols who were caught having boyfriends and they were subjected to various punishments, from making a public apology to their fans for disappointing them, paying hefty fines, and even having their heads shaved as a form of humiliation and public shaming
Idol culture and otaku are VILE
yyyyyep and this kind of shit is seldom ever addressed
man i really doggone y’know, idunno why they cominroun thinkin i wanna draw errdang person who scootnon over t’mah sketchbook mang i ain’t yerdam persnal artist you gon pay me ferthat shit didn think so goddaamn
Oh, I don’t know, I think it’d be nice… people all around you, asking you to draw ‘em because they care enough to see you try, maybe make a little conversation… I mean, they’d probably leave right after… never even really want more beyond a drawing… might not even call back… but it’s the thought that counts.
Yeah, that’s what the government wants you to believe, Bill. One second you’re looking down drawing a picture for someone and then SHA-SHAW government tracking chip planted in your brain!
My life is complete.
Flipnote is where I came up with these characters. Decided to draw them with their final designs.
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Okay so I get this, but I also don’t. A horse with a cardboard unicorn horn vs a transwoman’s wig being taken off seems like a very distant comparison to me…
I read somewhere that they meant to have this horse wanting to be a unicorn represent a trans woman/gender issues to like teach the issue in an easy to understand way for kids apparently not realizing how ridiculous the way they went about it is. So when you think about the horse as a trans woman and the horn as a wig and buttercup taking the horn off in the way she did…/:
i see it as a comment on how feminization surgery isnt necessary in order to feel like a woman.
theres a difference between gender reassignment, and a softening of the jaw, implants, etc.
Well I, as a trans woman, see it as them telling us that we should accept what we were born as, as opposed to what we actually are.
I can respect that. As someone who is genderfluid, I sort of identify with it. I don’t have gender dysphoria because theres no definition as to what a man or a woman looks like, and it took me a while to come to terms with that. There’s dudes with boobs, and chicks with body hair, and that’s cool. The real man or woman is who I see in the mirror, and I don’t need anything to change that.
That’s fantastic that you’re comfortable enough with your body to not need any modifications but some of us don’t have that luxury which is why when this episode displayed procedures to change your body as some sort of mistake that we just rush into. That’s another reason why it makes me super uncomfortable. The whole episode sends so many wrong messages.
I can understand that, but overall the message seems to be “you are beautiful the way you are and do not require plastic surgery”.
Which is a backwards ass message when discussing trans issue.
Scene redraw to visually show why this whole episode makes me uncomfortable.
Okay so I get this, but I also don’t. A horse with a cardboard unicorn horn vs a transwoman’s wig being taken off seems like a very distant comparison to me…
I read somewhere that they meant to have this horse wanting to be a unicorn represent a trans woman/gender issues to like teach the issue in an easy to understand way for kids apparently not realizing how ridiculous the way they went about it is. So when you think about the horse as a trans woman and the horn as a wig and buttercup taking the horn off in the way she did…/:
i see it as a comment on how feminization surgery isnt necessary in order to feel like a woman.
theres a difference between gender reassignment, and a softening of the jaw, implants, etc.
Well I, as a trans woman, see it as them telling us that we should accept what we were born as, as opposed to what we actually are.
I can respect that. As someone who is genderfluid, I sort of identify with it. I don’t have gender dysphoria because theres no definition as to what a man or a woman looks like, and it took me a while to come to terms with that. There’s dudes with boobs, and chicks with body hair, and that’s cool. The real man or woman is who I see in the mirror, and I don’t need anything to change that.
That’s fantastic that you’re comfortable enough with your body to not need any modifications but some of us don’t have that luxury which is why when this episode displayed procedures to change your body as some sort of mistake that we just rush into. That’s another reason why it makes me super uncomfortable. The whole episode sends so many wrong messages.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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