[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)...

So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world...

So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit world, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own^ design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

^with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle...

What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here. What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)...

So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world...

So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit world, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own^ design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

^with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle...

What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)...

So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world...

So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit world, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a *leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

*with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle...

What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)...

So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world...

So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a *leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

*with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle...

What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)... So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world...

So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a *leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

*with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle...

What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)... So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world.. . So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a *leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

*with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle ... What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.

[T]he...roles for girls and women [do] not wind up passing my feminist test

Oh this should be good. I'll strap in. Tell me about this test.

[A] movie should have at least one main or side female character who thinks or talks about something other than a man.

Posting on a site called "Ovarit" but thinks she invented the Bechdel test.

What Ghibli girl or woman does not think or talk about men? At all?

From "Does something besides X" to "Never does X at all" in the width of a punctuation mark. Goalpost land speed record.

Misogyny and homophobia are strongly reinforced throughout Ghibli movies.

This is going to be a complaint about all the families and children, isn't it.

...sexualization of women and children...fuckers...fuckees...

Oh my mistake. I agree that clearly Ghibli movies are all about fucking.

Conceptualized and constructed in a complex network defined by masculine parameters determined by lorem ipsum dominance...

Mmmyes these college words greatly bolster your argument, which is...remind me again?

Every girl or woman ends up with a boy or man.

Does this one not count or something?

Men fear not (sic) that girls and women will be aggressive (Princess Mononoke)... So you did at least watch it. Are you going to explain why it doesn't contradict what you just said?

...or that girls and women will fight for themselves (Chihiro from Spirited Away, Therru from Gedo Senki, Haru Yoshioka from The Cat Returns, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle, etc)

So...ignore all these examples too, got it. They also only apparently contradict your position.

...developmentally inappropriate...Ponyo...

Close call there; I was about to let a child watch Ponyo. Thanks for the warning.

...semi-beastiality...

Are Otherkin and Therian Womxn not welcome on Ovarit? That doesn't sound very ~inclusive~.

...a lesbian Ghibli character? In a lesbian relationship?

Are lesbian Otherkin allowed?

Won't somebody think of the children? /s

Wait so, this whole paragraph with `developmentally inappropriate' in the topic sentence, that's to be taken seriously with regard to concern about children, and the /s tag only applies to the thing about lesbians because that would be developmentally appropriate, even though the problem is Ghibli movies have "adult models of sexuality" or something...I think I'm missing one or more layers of sarcasm here. That or this epic feminist theory is just checking my Ghibli fanboy privilege so hard that I can't think straight.

Ghibli movies...present girls and women as creatures more in contact with the home and the forces of the spirit world.. . So this guy is a river spirit who guides her through and keeps her safe in the spirit, Howl is a wizard with a portal to any number of worlds fantastical or mundane, and this guy stays at home with Satsuki and Mei while their mother is in the hospital, but those don't count because...reasons I guess? Also, isn't it received doctrine that Womxn are more spiritually attuned?

...implying that girls and women are alien to human societies

This lady as a *leader that fights to encroach on and conquer nature and spirits with breakthrough technology of her own design doesn't count because she's a villain, and we can't take a morally nuanced, diegetic view of her character. Or something.

*with help from lepers she rescued and offered a place in her society

[G]irls and women are seen cooking and cleaning. Sophie is a cleaning lady in Howl’s Moving Castle ... What about how ~problematic~ it is that she made a living making pretty hats before that?

Satsuki and Mei clean...Chihiro cleans the bathhouse in Spirited Away, Kiki cleans the room given to her...

What kind of slave mentality does it take to clean a room that some bourgeois capitalist fat-cats let you use for free? But I'm also confused: this seems like a lot of cleaning and fastidity for characters that you just characterized as "alien to society."

Umi leads the school's clubhouse cleaning...

Ignore the leadership position among student societies here.

Boys and men rarely help with the work

Checks out - see five girls and only three dudes cleaning here What a bunch of lay-abouts. I'll bet they make the girls do all the dangerous work on top of that.

People exalt Studio Ghibli...

All jokes and sarcasm aside: anthropologists, historians and (post-woke) critics will be revisiting Ghibli's opus for centuries if not longer. I feel truly fortunate to have lived to witness the advent of such beautiful and culturally megalithic stories.

I respectfully disagree with the popular opinion.

You'd be wrong. And you sound like kind of a dumb bitch...respectfully.