Dont even have to watch these videos, just look at the comments on them ( I recommend using ad block to not give these people any ad revenue profits, even if its a few cents): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlwnlb72rLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pman_LN8sVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfCzdZZtP5g
And the thing that pisses me off is that anime is actually such a diverse medium, that there are literally mountainloads of anime that dont sexualize women. There is literally genres like shoujo and manhwa geared towards female audiences, and yet these people go into shounen (a genre meant for teenage boys), and the complain that the women are sexualized.
https://ibb.co/qWMmYMs https://ibb.co/8zRf8sQ https://ibb.co/x2GcyNH
And when you point out that there are genres that gear towards women as well, its still not enough for them.
Related to the post u/Theman2008 made earlier today
A few comments from the videos:
I know this commenter is talking about My Hero specifically, but in anime as a whole? It of course varies from anime to anime, but I'd argue the opposite; men are usually generic cutouts, whereas the female characters, even if trope-y, are distinct. And I've literally seen feminists bitch about that.
Generic female characters = bad, cause sexism. Generic male characters = bad, because it means men can identify with them; Patriarchy! You can't win.
...Watch...different...anime...then...?
Seriously, there's plenty of anime with well developed (heh) female characters, and even female protagonists, who are not there to be "objects of pleasure."
You have to explain that the male gaze is bad because you're in a cult, and you don't think like normal people anymore. As to fanservice, that trend is not because they want to humiliate and degrade female characters but because those characters don't usually display that level of sexuality or nakedness on their own, so to fit it in it has to be that accidental peeping or whatever. Oh, and also, Japan is fucking weird.
Funny thing is, again, they'd be unhappy no matter what. If a female character showed off willingly (in universe, I mean...because these are fictional characters and aren't un/willing since they're not real) all the time for fanservice...feminists are still pissed. As evidenced in some of the other comments there. So their argument that fanservice is sometimes "against the will" of the female characters is nonsense since they're also pissed when it's not against their will.
And, yes, anime must be gatekept the fuck out of.
That's because most girls in anime have modesty and that is part of what makes them so much more attractive than these "modern wahmen". Most of them are probably jealous they never receive the "male gaze".
For me, the biggest offence is that they assume only the men are looking or enjoying the fanservice. Women are frequently more interested in cute or sexy female characters than men.
It's not like it's a secret that more men than women watch JoJo, and more women than men watch Sailor Moon, even though there's many scenes of attractive men in states of undress in JoJo, and many scenes of attractive women in states of undress in Sailor Moon.