On Sun, 11 May 2003, Dean Siren wrote:

> >> (Can't say I really like either image, both Rei and Asuka have weird,
> >> half-frightened, half-sad expressions.
> >
> > Yeah, I was trying to figure out why Rei was naked in that picture--
> > she certainly wasn't looking "sexy" (and nudity != sexy, so there),
> > just inexplicably nude.
>
> Is Gainax trying to send us a message by making these characters uncomfortable
> when they're undressed?  Why does so much anime sexualize females who don't want
> to be?

Because it's hard to do the same with live-action?  ;-p

>
> Gainax made this calendar in 2001, after making Kare Kano and Furi Kuri, both
> anime that star rarely sexualized, strong-willed young women.  Now, it'd be
> nice to have both, a girl who's as competent and self-motivated as any guy at
> work/school, then playful and sexy after hours.  But all anime I've seen do one
> or the other.  If guys are going to use anime as a role model for sex, it should
> explain how to work with and get along with, then maybe score with, girls who
> are strong, independent and sexy.
>

Because if those guys can get some, then they wouldn't be watching anime!
Suffice to say, guys aren't using anime as a role model - it's an escape!
Heheheh   ;p

> Back in my teens, I was perfectly satisfied with how Dragon Knight and Eva
> treated girls.  But in real life, if you treat a woman that way, you get a world
> of hurt.  I know from experience.  So anytime I see such simple minded hentai, I
> get turned off because they bring up bad memories.  I think anime should still

Nah, it just means you're horrible in picking girls to do it on. ;p

> show a guy and a girl go all the way, but I want to see it feature personalities
> who would get far in real life.
>
> When you use fiction as a role model, you're really using the people who made it
> as a role model, so it's never really fiction.  So, how is Hideaki Anno's love
> life?  How about Miyazaki?  Naoko Takeuchi?  Akira Toriyama?  The Clamp
> ladies?  Mamoru Oshii?  The Wachowskis?  Hironobu Sakaguchi?  Hideo Kojima?  Yu
> Suzuki?  James Cameron?  George Lucas?  Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze?
> Alfonso Cuaron?
>

"I'm not a role model." -- Charles Barkley commercials

Laters. =)

                Stan
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