Peach is dimissing my replies now, despite my sincerest attempts to be polite and help out.

I don’t know. Antagonizing people who would otherwise support you seems counterproductive to me, especially when same-sex marriage legislation is still a contentious issue.

Actually, feminists and the slashfiction community often butt heads. The end goal of feminists is the oppression of all men and women, and the removal of individual choise. This includes the removal of any and all forms of sexualization.

The true progressive goal is for the freedom for women to write the stories they want, is it not?

Its a response by Japanese artists, writers, and creators, and the majority of the signatories were women.

He may not overtly mean harm, but by repeating and spreading the false stereotype he’s complicit in a larger on-going alt-right campaign of oppression.

If your measure of lesbian popularity is the presence, or lack thereof, lesbian tags in slashfiction stories, I’m afraid your choice of yardstick is slightly flawed.

One need only look at the reasoning of the proposed ban, “to protect women”, and the response that came from women in Japan, “you’re oppressing us”.

It is progressive. Men and women contribute to every genre available, ranging from children’s manga to hardcore hentai. They have the freedom to write what they want, and if they write well they will earn a loyal audience.

Its certainly a lot more diverse than the racist, sexist, xenophobic caricature he’s using to represent the manga industry.

I find it completely disengenous to conflate genuine assholes with people who celebrate or fetishize lesbians because they have to implicitly accept the existance of that lesbians in order to celebrate or fetishize them.

The problems with the sexualization of children is not nearly as endemic as most media outlets would have you believe. Its part and parcel of the larger alt-right campaign to further demonize certain parts of Japanese culture.

There is actually a great deal more diversity in manga than what most of the international market sees. We generally only get the big titles as far as manga, but there’s so much more to it. There are entire sections devoted entirely to boy love and the fujoshi market.

I’m pretty sure his alt-right supporters here are the ones using that arguement on me for attempting to defend the men and women of the manga industry from their oppression.

Just informing the author that, among the voices of those who have sincere reasons to be pissed, there is an insidious contingent of feminist agents who are trying to use this to further the deterioration of gender relations.

Incorrect, the only alt-right troll here is the person who created the racist, sexist, xenophobic video. I’ve clearly explained how his views are classic alt-right thinking, and why I’m standing up to it.

This video is part of a larger concerted attack on certain parts of Japanese culture, and the men and women who inhabit that culture, that’s been going on for a while now.

That an otaku market exists doesn’t in any way imply that the entirety of the manga market is dominated by that market. The otaku demographic is strong market, to be sure, but the manga industry as a whole is incredibly diverse.

Despite the clear explanation about how forcing your cultural views on other cultures is racism and xenophobia, you still continue to insist that its not. You even dare to compare Japanese women to American women.

Nope. Countries are different. Just because the US has a problem with female representation in their media doesn’t mean that Japan does. The fact that he even thinks he has the right to criticize a foreign culture is racism and xenophobia in and of itself, the sexism comes from the fact that he’s also oppressing…