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mkay so a friend sent me this post about Love...
The last episode only shows one woman the entire episode and she’s dead, mutilated, naked, and tied up. I can handle normal Gore but that just felt next level misogynistic to only have one woman shown the entire episode and she’s dead and mutilated in a sexy way and I feel like that deserves a warning in it’s own right and wouldn’t have watched that episode if I’d known how misogynistic it is
yeah that is very true. I have discussed the episodes more in depth with another friend who watched it and I have come to the conclusion that my standards for animation stories are way lower than my standards for normal stories? mostly because I judge first and foremost by “oh art pretty!!!!” and then secondly by “huh I guess a story is happening? is there anything in it that aggressively makes me unable to watch this?” and the only one that came close to that for me was Helping Hand. I was mostly trying to pull together a list of “gore/violence or no gore/violence” and “sex or no sex” and letting people have their opinions of their own beyond that, but considering More People than the 2 or 3 I expected to actually see and care about my post seem to have seen and care about my post, I will at add that to my list? like, if people are using my list as a serious filter than I have the responsibility to update it so it’s a slightly more serious filter.
the series is defs overarchingly male-dominated as a whole -- there are 5/18 (not counting ones where all characters are robots) where there are male characters and no female characters whatsoever? and glancing over it I don’t think there are any at all -- I mean maybe Sonny’s Edge and Suits depending on how much you count needing to talk and be developed as being a character, Helping Hand if heard and developed but not seen doesn’t count -- where there are actually more female characters than male ones, and all the rest are very skewed to more male characters? like. it’s a pretty male-centric series in the first place. and they don’t terribly deal with topics that included rape well. so by the time I got to the end I was not expecting much in terms of there being anything meaningful in gender balance or gender commentary.
