Re: Gender Power Balance in Anime

On May 5, 9:59 am, Galen <ga...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 05:50:49 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner
>
> <LBRat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >      Is there any anime where male and female characters possess
> >roughly equal amounts of power?
>
> Pokemon?

Mecha are the great equalizer.  Think Macross. :-)

> >Is there any show where its the males
> >who are in the right and its the females who are misguided or evil?
>
> That's problematic. Any society that relies on biological reproduction
> but which fails to protect its women is doomed; therefore, the
> leader****p must be misguided or evil.

Agreed.  Therefore I propose that we as men divert more resources into
CLONING technologies, to throw off the shackles of female bondage as
soon as possible!

> >Is there any reason why power tends to be schewed towards one
> >gender at the expense of the other in anime?
>
> Because a gentleman cannot strike a lady.

Sadly the opposite isn't true.  I'd have killed most of the punchers
by now, were I in the harem lead's role.  With a clean conscience.

--
Abraham Evangelista