[ SECRET POST #2630 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2630 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/9W3fUG3.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Do we need to have the talk?

The gender roles and stereotypes and how people don't have to fit in a category talk?

[sarillia]

Hmm, I have a friend who would be very interested in a show about a bunch of women with male swimmers' builds.

I'm not sure how these guys "don't act like guys" though. Can you define how guys act without stereotyping and perpetuating strict gender roles?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this. I watched the first episode and I had to drop it, boys acting like moeshit girls was just too ridiculous for me.

[(Anonymous)]

"Liking boobs" is a solely masculine quality... Well alrighty then.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh OP.



Ooooooooh OP.

*pat*

Come over here, into this corner. I'll fix you a snack and you can think about what you've done.

[(Anonymous)]

No homo, huh?

[sporkly]

It isn't my thing either, but Free definitely did what it set out to do and I can respect that.

[(Anonymous)]

>Nagisa
>masculine

Did we watch the same show?

[vethica]

I would have given this a 1/10 for effort, but people actually seem to be taking the bait, so I'll bump it up to a 4/10. Good(?) job.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, this show can't hear your lack respect over the screams of its adoring fans.

[(Anonymous)]

kek

[silvereriena]

I'm guessing this is going to be the popcorn thread of today.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, what did you expect? This is about as yaoi as shit can get without anyone fucking onscreen, and everyone knows characters in yaoi are basically girls with dicks (and without boobs), so it all fits together!

[(Anonymous)]

Troll would've been more subtle if didn't claim Nagisa liked boobs.

[(Anonymous)]

Oops. Time to go tell all my friends' male children they're not really guys. Some of them act just this ridiculous, gossipy, and emotional.

[darkmanifest]

This reminds me of when people say a female character is just a "man with boobs" because she doesn't, I dunno, bake enough cookies and crotchet enough sweaters for the menfolk or something. Non-masculine dudes are still dudes. They're just not the kinda dudes you wanna see, and that's okay. Although I wonder who looks at something that was clearly built from the ground up to pander towards a young female demographic and expects to see manly manliness everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

This may be a troll, but I also think that Nagisa is the most boyish of the Iwatobi boys. :P

[(Anonymous)]

YOU'RE ALL CONCENTRATING ON THE WRONG ISSUE HERE! WHERE ARE THE FUCKING NIPPLES!? CHEST HAIR!? (YES, SWIMMERS TEND TO SHAVE, BUT IT'S TEENAGERS! THEY START SPROUTING HAIR!)

Never seen this show, my poor ex-swimmer heart would probably break.

[cloud_riven]

Kyoani. Portraying realness. Give me a second to come down from that.

[(Anonymous)]

So, OP: What are your suggestions for making them act more like stereotypical male Japanese teenagers? Because see, I don't know any large groups of male Japanese teenagers and so I don't really know how they are supposed to act? "Not like that" isn't really very detailed information. While I agree that their behaviour isn't exactly stereotypically male, I'm not exactly sure what's supposed to be so particularly female about it? At least in the realm of anime personality traits, they always read fairly... neutral to me.

[(Anonymous)]

aw bitch I KNOW you ain't hatin' on my swim time

(but fuck yeah pimp Nagisa. must rewatch 50% Off.)

[blueonblue]

They're not asking for your respect, they're asking for LOVE.

femininity in Japan

[(Anonymous)]

let me tell you something I was once told by a Japanese coworker of mine: in Japan, it's MUCH better for a guy to seem "girly" than for a girl to seem "manly". After she said this, the rest of my coworkers, male and female, all nodded in agreement.

The question had come up when I was talking about one of my students, who had recently come back from studying abroad for a semester in America. In Japan (at the time) it was very popular for high school/college boys to wear headbands in their hair. Some of those headbands could be pretty OTT in decoration, including glitter and whatnot. In the US, that's not something you would likely see a boy wearing. This boy came back to class and told me that he went to school wearing his headband one day and had been laughed out of the classroom and called a "fag" for the rest of the time he was there.

My point is that femininity is not always the same thing to everyone, and a lot of things that are considered "girly" in America, at least, are considered unisex in Japan.

[tamabonotchi]

Funny how you think their intention was to create realistic male characters