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.
Is it me or do the majority of women who whine about “male gaze” have jealousy issues? It seems like they can’t handle the idea that someone marketing to guys will include attractive women. Of course every superhero or guy on the cover of a romance novel has rippling muscles. Or wouldn’t 50 Shades be a massive example of the female gaze?
That's absolutely a huge part of it. The other part is actual androphobia. Both are rooted in how most women are failed women, which is its own topic. Failed women have a particular neurosis where they're both upset when a man (even a hypothetical man) doesn't find her attractive all the time, and also so deathly afraid of male sexuality that they don't want to see sexually provocative imagery displayed anywhere,
You've already mentioned the catcalling thing. That may have been a joke in a TV show, but it's a legitimate thing with women. Another good example are the western fujoshi - they desire male sexuality strongly enough that they're practically defined by their obsession with it, but also so afraid and disgusted by it being directed towards a woman that they can only play with it in the "safe" environment of gay porn.