The video had very strong pathos through appealing to people's emotions. It creates feelings of anger by showing the degrading views of women that exists in the media. The same media that we are constantly exposed to. The video's ethos was strong throughout except for some parts where they used very unreliable sources to support their claims. The video's logos is strong because this is a big issue in today's society and causes at lot of debate. The video takes a lot of mostly logical examples to support their claim.
Being someone that is not a woman, it was harder for pathos to reach me. However, it was strong enough to where, even though I am not a woman, it reached me just fine. There was a small part in the video addressing the same problem but with men. It talked about how men had to establish a facade to remain "manly" and remain superior to women. Honestly, I do not see myself doing this as such a high degree as other people, who clearly outwardly show this behavior. However, women have a stronger reason to follow through with what the media wants, connecting to Merchants of Cool. Before watching this video, I was not aware to this extent of the injustice towards women. An important thing is breaking the loop in Merchants of Cool.
I see women being portrayed in countless anime series. The problem is that women need to somehow to take step forward and being more activate as media heads. For example, most anime and manga series are written by men. Men will try to create art that fits their target audience which increases their sales and keeps the men happy. However, this backfires as this creates women that are perfect who are impossible reach in reality. In fact, a whole bunch of people are are not even adults yet wish to become thinner than they already are to reach that perfect woman.
It is impossible for everyone in the world to recognize the problem are women facing and it impossible to completely solve this problem, but if there is more acknowledgment of this as a problem, women will have more motivation to take a more equal stand in the world.
I agree that there is not really a way to completely solve this problem. Inequality towards women has been going on for too long for it to just completely disappear. Heck, Eve was even made for Adam and was portrayed as a sinner. Sure, the world as a whole can become more aware about the injustice in our social system, but there will always be men who believe they are superior and women who feel they are servants to men. It sad, but its the truth.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at anime there's a reason why most of them are targeted towards the male audience. The gif example you left there is by one of the more popular companies, Shaft, and even though they're supposed to be avante garde one of their biggest cash cows has highly sexualized females (well most anime really has highly sexualized females). Typically anime targeted towards girls, the DVD and Blu-Ray releases do not sell well. In fact, the anime with the highest sales are the highly perverted, cliche, harem anime which is targeted towards men. There's a reason why in Japan the term "otaku" is a derogatory term. In America, it is used more lightly, but in Japan the term refers to actual perverted men who comprise the majority of the consumers. Anime could have a more higher prestige and respect, however since the majority of consumers are these perverted men the majority of anime is all fanservice and the same cliches targeted towards men.
ReplyDeleteThough in respect to our culture, I do not believe American culture has such a polarization to society's reactions to the sexualization of women. Perhaps an equivalent to an otaku would be a nerd in America, but even still nerd culture is not discriminated against as an otaku would be in Japan. Perhaps this would indicate that compared to Japan which is far more traditional than America thus making sense for a polarization of anime from normal media in Japan, in American culture the line has blurred in our media for what is okay.
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Yes, I agree with you. I can clearly see how the media portrays women, it is not only in anime, but also in children's cartoon too. I find it shocking the way they portray the women in children's televisions shows. Women are being seen as sex objects and now it is also on children's television. What has media become now ?
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea that, as a male myself, I don't see myself as superior to women. To be honest, the majority of my friends don't put out as that type of person either. However, that is coming from a male as well, so I can't entirely say that for everyone else.
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