Progress comes with baby steps ...

[quietprofanity]

From here.

I got hooked by Death Note, for its great story and probably the understating dystopian elements. But. As always, guess I couldn't love it so much without those lovely yaoi fanfics and doujinshis that have made those manipulative, calculating boys more humane. Forget Misa the brat, LxLight is so HOT - deadly cat & mouse game, full of tensions, defiance and conflicts. So much to explore and so evil for my liking. Hehe, deal with it - I am ultimately a rotten yaoi/slash girl who doesn't give a damn to those annoying female characters in anime & manga (since you can't avoid them) and it's good to ignore them all and go pair some pretty boys up. What fun. I used to be ridiculously feminist and felt sympathic towards spoilt little girls, thinking they'd grow up one day, yet no more, after I encountered some real ones in life. It's in their genes.

Yes, same old fandom sexism -- but, PROGRESS! At least she's admitting that her marginalization isn't feminism.

Comments

[47nite.livejournal.com]

That's right: taking it from another man makes all guys more humane, who knew. :D

The second-to-last sentence feels like a non sequitur. All she had to do was provide a valid reason to dislike female characters and really just invoked a Paris Hilton strawman.

[akai_senshi.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll* Yeah, you're right, it's a baby step, but it's still kind of stupid.

Misa is awesome though. She's as messed up as Light is!

And somehow, I bet she's one of those girls who see two gay men hold hands in the mall and call them fags.