OP is correctly pointing out that he's noticing a growth in its prevalence, and he's entirely correct that simps and low-frequency men will eat it up because "it's hot".
That's always been the wedge and it will be defended with voracious intent by many people for the aforementioned reasons.
Yes, we know that there used to be those themes in older content, but as OP rightfully pointed out, it was fringe.
I don't watch anime so I can't speak to the volumes of its prevalence, but if it's anything like the rest of media entertainment I do not doubt his observations.
This is the "chainmail bikini paradox". Women argue that skimpy outfits are not appropriate for female medieval warriors - they should wear the same protection as men! Men respond: if we're being realistic, then women shouldn't be engaging in combat at all.
Point being: we only tolerated girl bosses because they were attractive. In real life, girl bosses basically don't exist. All of the richest women in the world are divorcees. All of the best female athletes and chess players are sequestered away in their own leagues. The vast majority of women run from war and dangerous jobs, and the ones who don't are almost always a liability.
When flawless female leaders and soldiers and geniuses and heroes started showing up in our media, we suspended disbelief because they were cute or hot or otherwise compelling as women. Feminists broke that unspoken bargain when they turned all of these girl bosses into insufferable ugly cunts. Now there's no upside to enduring the incongruity between media depictions of women and our real life experiences with them.
If I want to be annoyed by some stupid 4/10 who thinks she's both a supermodel and the smartest person in the room, I don't need to spend $70 on a video game. I can just walk around outside for a few minutes.
If The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was released today then everyone here would call her a girlboss. That's all I have to say in terms of applying western sensibilities to oriental productions.
Grrlbosses are very common in anime I've noticed. Only they typically are attractive enough to balance it out
Yeah. One way of accepting girlbosses is to make them cute and pretty. And wrap it in a comedy too if possible.
Yuri has been in anime for as long as most of us have been alive, just look at the original Japanese Sailor Moon.
OP is correctly pointing out that he's noticing a growth in its prevalence, and he's entirely correct that simps and low-frequency men will eat it up because "it's hot".
That's always been the wedge and it will be defended with voracious intent by many people for the aforementioned reasons.
Yes, we know that there used to be those themes in older content, but as OP rightfully pointed out, it was fringe.
I don't watch anime so I can't speak to the volumes of its prevalence, but if it's anything like the rest of media entertainment I do not doubt his observations.
This is the "chainmail bikini paradox". Women argue that skimpy outfits are not appropriate for female medieval warriors - they should wear the same protection as men! Men respond: if we're being realistic, then women shouldn't be engaging in combat at all.
Point being: we only tolerated girl bosses because they were attractive. In real life, girl bosses basically don't exist. All of the richest women in the world are divorcees. All of the best female athletes and chess players are sequestered away in their own leagues. The vast majority of women run from war and dangerous jobs, and the ones who don't are almost always a liability.
When flawless female leaders and soldiers and geniuses and heroes started showing up in our media, we suspended disbelief because they were cute or hot or otherwise compelling as women. Feminists broke that unspoken bargain when they turned all of these girl bosses into insufferable ugly cunts. Now there's no upside to enduring the incongruity between media depictions of women and our real life experiences with them.
If I want to be annoyed by some stupid 4/10 who thinks she's both a supermodel and the smartest person in the room, I don't need to spend $70 on a video game. I can just walk around outside for a few minutes.
If The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was released today then everyone here would call her a girlboss. That's all I have to say in terms of applying western sensibilities to oriental productions.