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fandomsecrets2014-03-08 03:40 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-03-08 03:40 pm
[ SECRET POST #2622 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2622 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-08 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)I'm...sorry, I guess I'm not expressing things very well.
I don't think it's about making allowances for the impact of cultural beliefs that you think are wrong. In fact, in the case of one of the anime pictured in OP's secret, the exact opposite happened: Western audiences judged it as a feminist work, when it was actually the exact opposite when viewed through a Japanese lens. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that on its face; as you say, we cannot separate our initial judgments or evaluations from our own values, and we can personally take meaning from a work that's different from what its author intends. The problem is when we take those judgments and evaluations into an activist space and begin to speak as if our interpretation is correct even when taking cultural context into account.
The main reason this is a problem is because there's a long and storied history of Western feminists trying to impose Western concepts of gender and sexual politics on other countries and cultures. The sorts of discussions that OP seems to be referencing can be off-shoots of this troublesome practice.
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