Re: Gay stereotypes in Evangelion.
"roshnikasumo" <osh@spamspambrown.edu> wrote in message
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> "Fish Eye no Miko" <fisheye@deadmoon.circus> wrote:
> > "roshnikasumo" <osh@spamspambrown.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > > The line in which he claims to love Shinji is apparently a lot
> > > > more ambigious in the Japanese version.
> > >
> > > 'Suspicion' (I think arguiong the thing is both moot and rather
stupid)
> > > is exerbated by the fact his exceptional (male) voiceactor is Akira
> > > Ishida, who infamously plays a lot of famous bishounen characters
> > > and sometimes outright effeminate men, usually jobs reserved for
> > > women.
> >
> > And at least two men I can think of who were openly attracted to men,
>
> Hmm, I wonder. ^_^
About what?
> > Fish Eye from SMSS and Mizuki from _Level-C_.
>
> *nod* Usually 'suave' men, too. (Koyasu, in contrast, seems to get a
> run of TougaKiryuu-esque peppered with an over-the-top Hanagatatype
> one every once in a while)
???
> [Hmm, Ishida/Koyasu. *flee*]
I wish I knew what the hell you were talking about...
> Not to mention the rep got carried over to some of his other famous
> characters. Xelloss from Slayers, while quite playful, isn't effeminate
> but a lot of people seem to describe him that way.
Yeah...
I also don't get the "pain slut" thing (ie, claims that he's a
masochist)... Xelloss seems no more or less pleased about getting hurt
than anyone else in anime.
Catherine Johnson.
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