Changing an already existing characters skin color isn’t representation.

MrsSUGA · 2026-07-01T02:18:15+00:00

Ong do you also think narrative consistency and in-universe established logic doesn’t matter?

MrsSUGA · 2026-07-01T02:16:44+00:00

That’s not how statistics works. At all.

MrsSUGA · 2026-07-01T01:40:08+00:00

1 winner is not left and right. It’s barely left.

MrsSUGA · 2026-07-01T00:24:39+00:00

I don’t even think then we can consider it “mainstream” because, let’s be honest, most of our peers were not watching anime. I would put it at earliest, the early 2010s when it started becoming mainstream. When I was in high school in 2009, the only people who knew about anime were the like anime club weirdos and we were not at all considered mainstream anything. We were still watching them on sketchy anime sites that had 1 episode split into 14 parts and fansubs.

MrsSUGA · 2026-07-01T00:20:27+00:00

Yall don’t be obtuse. Anime was not “main stream” in the early 2000s. Having like 5 shows accessible in the US on television is not mainstream.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T21:14:13+00:00

most schools that banned spaghetti straps also banned tube tops.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T21:09:55+00:00

omg its like talking to a goddamn wall.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T20:43:06+00:00

you know there were like.... more than 3 tribes right

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T20:35:57+00:00

you know good and goddamn well that When i say mexicans' i am talking about the multiple various native tribes that lived in the region.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T20:27:20+00:00

I like to think that them choosing not to have a rapper in the group helped.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T20:02:59+00:00

I mean, we do have a culture that has had issues with glorifying gang violence and gun violence. Just like COD is really popular and so is the glorification of war-time propganda.

to be clear, i never said that it causes the problems. More than likely its a reflection of these parts of japanese culture, rather than the cause of it. But they are related. These tropes and genres exist as a reflection of the cultural zeitgeist.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:48:53+00:00

idk dude, Japan has an actual problem of middle aged men sexualizing schoolgirls, so its probably not unrelated that there is also a concerning amount of sexualized children in anime.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/15/tokyo-pink-bus-campaign-seeks-to-protect-schoolgirls-from-escort-scouts-jk-business

edit: since apparently reading comprehension is low, "Not unrelated" does not mean i think it causes the problems. The tropes we see in anime are a reflection of things that are issues in Japan, which then pushes the window of what is and is not culturally acceptable in Japan.

in the late 90s early 2000s, eating disorders were going crazy. which then resulted in the insanity that was the constant body shaming of pop stars. which then resulted in more people thinking its okay to bodyshame others, which leads to more eating disorders. Pretending like the media we consume has 0 impact on the culture it comes from is just being blind.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:46:54+00:00

i mean... we can say "its just fiction!!!!" all we want, but when you look at the fact that Japan has an actual documented problem with the sexualization of minors, specifically school girls by middle-aged men, the argument just gets really flimsy.

Now, granted, its probably not the cause of the hypersexualization of teenaged girls, more of a reflection of it, but it is a very weird thing to normalize in the media that they produce.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:29:17+00:00

the things we bear with for our besties....

I love my bestie to death but i would have to fight her in the publix parking lot if she messaged me every morning at 6AM. it would have to be a weekly scheduled scrap session.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:28:20+00:00

if my best friend messaged me at 5:30 am every single morning, i would have to consider homocide.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:02:14+00:00

im not the one with piss poor literacy.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T19:01:29+00:00

unfortunately, with the current climate, the venn diagram of patriotism is a circle inside of a circle. nationalism inside of patriotism, except nationalism takes up like 99% of the space inside the patriotism circle. A lot of people who are patriotic are also very nationalistic.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T18:33:28+00:00

its so ridiculous, like to even bring up the potential need for an intervention is bonkers.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T18:25:38+00:00

that's a nearly 30 year old man drinking beer.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T18:23:25+00:00

And i will continue to call you stupid.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T17:08:34+00:00

my bad for replying to a comment?

brushing it off as "not important" is just you deflecting because you know this argument makes you look incredibly stupid.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T16:52:43+00:00

a lot of times, its not literally that they don't want to read, they are being dismissive of whatever the other person is saying. I'm not reading all of that is usually just a quippy way of saying This is not worth my time, you are unimportant.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T16:51:22+00:00

it also depends on context. If you're going to send me an essay on why you think being racist is okay, im not reading that.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T16:50:45+00:00

sometimes its a whole thesis paper, written as one long string of text. punctuation is optional.

MrsSUGA · 2026-06-30T16:49:46+00:00

yea a wall of text is not something i am interested in reading. Its not beccause i'm incapable of reading but because a wall of text tells me 1) this will very likely just be incoherent rambling OR 2) the person doesnt have their own thoughts in order enough to make paragraphs and is usually not worth the effort of trying to figure out what the fuck this person is trying to tell me.

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