(here via your link in branchandroot's comments, which I found via metafandom... I think. Too many open tabs etc.)
As someone who jumped head-first into the anime/manga fandom in the late ninties/early 2000s and was very much a typical teenaged animanga fangirl (minus the female character bashing and RL homophobia, probably, but still bad enough), thank you for this post!
Even though I still read or watch anime and manga (even though my focus has since shifted to videogames), I find it difficult to get into their fandoms, and much of that has to do with a large (or at least vocal) group of those same "typical teenaged animanga fangirls" that I myself belonged to, and a lack of awareness for issues I'd like to see addressed. (Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to have a link or two to those discussions you mentioned? I'd love to see more of them. *_*)
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Date: 2010-01-07 05:26 pm (UTC)As someone who jumped head-first into the anime/manga fandom in the late ninties/early 2000s and was very much a typical teenaged animanga fangirl (minus the female character bashing and RL homophobia, probably, but still bad enough), thank you for this post!
Even though I still read or watch anime and manga (even though my focus has since shifted to videogames), I find it difficult to get into their fandoms, and much of that has to do with a large (or at least vocal) group of those same "typical teenaged animanga fangirls" that I myself belonged to, and a lack of awareness for issues I'd like to see addressed. (Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to have a link or two to those discussions you mentioned? I'd love to see more of them. *_*)
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