[ SECRET POST #623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #623 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: 132

[jlh.livejournal.com]

May I ask what it was in Fruits Basket that got to you? I'm reading the manga and I like it but am wondering if I sort of glossed over something.

Re: 132

[lanjelin.livejournal.com]

In Fruits Basket the sexism was actually a minor thing, and not what mainly got me to give up, but it was still annoying. When Akito's secret was revealed I was incredibly disappointed; I'd thought it was very interesting how "his" insanity was expressed in a way that traditionally codes female, with the hysteria, illogical demands and outbursts, the selfish manipulation, and so on. Turns out it's because Akito was a woman. *sigh* So typical.

But really, Akito is not a bad character, and I could have ignored my disappointment over her simply becoming yet another hysterical woman (who will no doubt be saved by the love of a man in the end) instead of breaking some interesting gender boundaries in characterisation (all right, so it really annoyed me, haha). What really got to me was the dismissal of homosexual relationship as a silly thing you can play around with before you find your true love. Which is someone of the opposite sex, of course.

I mean, Fruits Basket had a lot of ambiguous characters, some who even clearly confessed their love for someone of the same sex, but that's only used for comedy and/or forgotten completely when the "right" heterosexual person to love comes along.

This is typical for shoujo manga (hell, it's the mindset of a large part of the Japanese society, so I shouldn't be suprised); it can start out interesting, but it ends up enforcing the tired old gender roles almost every time anyway. It's so sad, because a lot of these sereis have had some incredible potential.