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(2) months gaiden weekly sales are better than 71 70 69 antis are so stupid where do these people make up stuff from over 800000 is naruto usual sales in 3 weeks better than most manga with the exception being op and snk nobody else opens that big

Because no one actually knows shit about the Japanese manga market that pretends they do. Confirmation bias means they just throw out numbers and then act like there is some basis.

To say nothing of folks like @truebond, and @gweatherwax who both have trotted out entirely baseless numbers for the cost of the Last and then claimed it was a flop based on these baseless numbers. 

The issue is, as I’ve said before, folks WANT the Last and the ending to flop, because that gives them validation. Without it, they’re stuck with one less support for their crumbling building built on sand. Like I said, they’re just scrambling to put up supports, and get so angry when you yank one away.

Of course I see it, by many parties for many very silly reasons, often based in a combination of faulty ideals of what a person ‘should’ be (or sometimes more directly ideas of what a woman should be) as well as very faulty understandings of how personality works. Namely, a running theme of thinking introversion is a flaw, OR that it changes. Simpy put: it doesn’t, not really. It is a historical and cultural conceit, with a frankly logical basis, as do many cultural norms. However, the irony is that many folks who bash Hinata for it simultaneously sexualize her for it.

In short folks who bash Hinata usually bash Hinata fans and NaruHina fans in particular, often implying there is some sort of sexual or sexist desire or attraction to shyness or, as it is sometimes wrongly stated about her, her being ‘moe.’ I’ve dealt with why Hinata ISN’T moe before, but there is this implication that introverted or shy means submissive, and further that not only is submissiveness itself bad, but also that Hinata IS submissive AND that somehow folks who like Hinata are sexualizing her FOR being submissive.

Which, of course, is wrong on all counts.

Further, there is some irony that these folks both bash Hinata for being introverted or shy, and do so by implying she exemplifies some sort of ‘old fashioned’ or ‘sexist’ thinking about the way women should be. Except this doesn’t work given it is never stated women should be any given way, really, in that manner, in the series. Further, its essentially a faulty conceit of the west, and no less sexist to declare women MUST act one way, and they are lesser and should be bashed if they do not tow the line. 

I’m only tacitly into comics; I rarely buy them, on the order of I’ll go years without it, I’ll look at them when I go to a bookstore but that’s about it. On the other hand, I often read ABOUT comics, oddly, but I’ve always been more of a Marvel guy than DC. Spider-Man was my favorite as a kid, and Venom as well. I’m not actually fond of the new stuff they’ve done with Venom. Or rather, I’m ok with it CONCEPTUALLY, the whole ‘Agent Venom, Flash in Space, etc’ stuff is interesting but I dislike how they’ve rewritten the backstory of symbiotes precisely BECAUSE new fans are more familiar with this Venom and thus don’t understand the old villain/anti-hero one.

I’m also pissed they just nonchalantly off-panel killed Hybrid and Toxin because I loved those guys and wish they’d gotten way more attention. But I digress, I’m getting off topic.

I was always a Marvel guy. Something about DC sort of doesn’t click as much with me, never has. I like Batman, in a memetic way, and the movies in a cinema way, but not much more. I feel, entirely as a functional outsider, that Marvel often comes off more, well... still ‘superheroic’ in a way, while DC is more ‘gritty.’ A comparison I once heard, echoed also in the differences between films, is that take Iron Man 3. In it, Tony Stark is told he can save maybe three people (or something along that, I can’t remember) who are falling from the sky. There are twelve. What does he do? He tries to save all twelve, and succeeds. 

In a DC film, I feel like the hero would try to save twelve, and end up saving none as a result. This may not be ACCURATE mind you, but its certainly the PERCEPTION I get from the two major franchises. Now, onto the Joker.

Joker is popular for being, in many ways, different than many other villains, he’s got a lot of backstory and has a lot of attention paid to him over the years. Some really good writing and some really great acting. Heath Ledger’s was truly fantastic, and may or may not have contributed to his death. Lost an amazing actor, and a great person there. Regardless, it is his being the quintessential foil to Batman, who is himself popular, that I think makes him so, well... popular. 

This is the vaguest and most baity sounding way to word this. I will, though, answer:

The only flaw I see in this is calling it bullshit. :P