I’m using the words based on how I’ve seen them used.

There is some shared cultural heritage between neughbouring nations like China and Korea with regards to their art media, but the manga industry as its being referred to in this video is the Japanese manga industry.

There is a lot of misandrist and misogynistic stuff going on in romance novels. Its not uncommon for romance novels to contain themes like kidnapping, forced imprisonment, rape, Stockholm’s syndrome, adultary, etc. Some estimates put the male/female ratio of romance novel authors to be 1/10.

Incorrect. I have sufficiently demonstrated that the video is racist, sexist, and xenophobic. Those argueing against are simply trying to prove that the racism, sexism, and xenophobia in the video is acceptable.

Its the hypocrisy. The UN went in with their demands using the excuse that they want to protect women, only to be told by women that the UN’s demands are oppressing them.

Seems pretty cut & dry to me.

Any one of the ‘normal’ chocolate Pocky, I’m not much of a fan of strange flavours in my chocolate snacks.

Last I checked, the act of misrepresenting a people’s industry is considered to be racist. Its also xenophobic if its from another country. And lastly, its sexist because he misrepresents it as male centric, when there is a very large population of female creators as well in the manga industry.

You underestimate the power of politics. There is damage being done. The recent push by the UN didn’t come out of thin air, it was born out of and supported by racist, sexist, and xenophobic ideas, the same ideas that feed into videos like this guy’s that seek to misrepresent an entire industry with a caricature that…

Excuse me, but I’m trying to defend Japanese creators from his racist, sexist, xenophobic attacks on their industry.

I might be willing to support such a motion if its fairly applied to all media. Based on those same ideas, all romance novels should be banned too due to the sick perverse stories often contained within.

So you’re okay with this American making a racist, sexist, xenophobic blanket statement regarding the entire manga industry?

The fact that he’s equating a Japanese manga writer with a most-likely-American Marvel comics writer is the problem. They aren’t anywhere near the same.

The guy who made the video is American, the video is about gender politics, therefore he’s displaying American values regarding gender politics.

Both that UN initiative and the lowbrow jokes in this American’s video are born out of the same racist, sexist, xenophobic assumptions; the assumption that their values are wanted nor needed in the Japanese industry.

And I’m saying that that very idea is racist, sexist, xenophobic; thinking that American values are needed nor wanted in the manga industry.

He’s applying American gender politics to the manga industry via that deeply racist, xenophobic, and sexist caricature of a manga creator.

Its just some American lowbrow humour. Nothing particularly noteworthy.

I don’t know, dude. It makes loads of racist, xenophobic, and sexist assumptions about the manga industry and Japanese creators.

I had a really close feminist friend who used to pose the question, “what if she’s real horrific alien ugly?”, to me a while back. In hindsight she was just trying to manipulate me, but I didn’t know it at the time. My answer to her, which involved responding to several more attempts to bait a shallow response from…