1. Emotion and logic are not opposites.

Emotion is an essential part of cognition. If you are trying to quarantine it out of your reasoning, you are likely to be less logical, not more.

Trying NOT to feel your feelings makes you irrational. You have to actually feel and acknowledge them to be able to perform complex reasoning.

2. Being apathetic about a subject does not make you a logical, rational arbiter of that subject.

Just because you don’t believe something directly affects you, you are not actually an objective observer and judge of it.

"Growing Around Grief"

Source: Berserk | Beruseruku | ベルセルク

Source: Berserk | Beruseruku | ベルセルク

Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom): The Genealogy of a Slogan

https://crimethinc.com/JinJiyanAzadi

For March 8, International Women’s Day, a Kurdish author from Iran explores the origins and implications of the slogan that became the watchword of the uprising that shook Iran in 2022.

But it's also reminded me that a lot of stuff hasn't really changed, because in essence, the Berserk fandom isn't anymore enlightened or ideal than other anime and nerd fandoms, which collectively has a problem with r@cism, sex!sm, h0mphobia/tr@nsphobia, PDFiles, and etc. Unfortunately Berserk fandom and fans still suffer from this weird collective delusion that it's set apart from the behavior of other fandoms because Berserk is often pedestalized ("Berserk is deeper than other manga"), and a lot of fans use that as a shield from legit criticism about both the work and the fandom. I've been saying it to ad nauseum, but as an older female fan, Berserk just barely discusses S.A. in a more serious way than any other story, specifically in the anime/manga medium (and sadly, a lot of the industry is a reflection of the society from whence it came, and Japan is still a deeply patriarchal society - and in turn, a lot of fans still look at Japan with rose-tinted glasses).

Someone else could probably do a much better analysis on the gender politics of anime and manga (because I've come across other titles that talk about S.A. just as or more seriously than Berserk - but they were shoujo, sooooo....), but anyway the story took steps in addressing male S.A., but still took steps back when depicting the standard female S.A., and the grotesqueness of any acts still hasn't caused many fans to forge much empathy toward the topic of S.A., or else, well, I wouldn't be making this post about fans giving r@pe "compliments" to female fans. (not to mention all of the Donovan jokes, how the Qliphoth scene isn't regarded as S.A. because it's female on male, people still making the case that Casca "enjoyed it", etc.)

So basically what I'm trying to get at is that the Berserk fandom is still bad at addressing fandom problems and general discussion about S.A. because a lot of Berserk fans - I feel and have observed over the years - set themselves apart from Other fandoms. Can't really address issues that fall under the general nerd umbrella until people resign in the fact that Berserk isn't that special to be set above the standard.