"Male wife", "Girlboss", "boy failure" are all stupid internet terms used by people to make them look more progressive in matters of taste, the people use that don't like it. That's why they use this terms with characters like Dante from Devil May Cry
No one here likes cute boys who're dedicated to their significant other or appreciate the idea of male characters who are more feminine and cute. I mean, twitter is annoyed by the fact that some Gacha games have male characters who don't weight 200kg and aren't muscle houses
The thing is that saying that Macho guys are associated with dudebors, so people can't just come and say "I like manly guys", they have to create stupid terms to disassociate their tastes from their enemies and make themselves look good, which is just pathetic
I get extremely annoyed by this, because I like feminine males and non-manly male characters.
Give me actual Male wives. Guys who cook for their girls, who like to clean, that put on apron while on the oven! Male characters that make you think "I wish you waked me up before work".
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There's a lot of anime focused on girls being released, the thing is that they don't pick the attention of anime commenters or fit the nice image that the "Shoujo girls" want to spread. They don't want you to know about the Isekai with the girl trying to slave the demon lordl
They don't want to talk abou Re-main, Dive!, Bakuten or Enstars, not only because they can't sit through various episodes of Bishounens, but also because those shows filled with conventional feminity and appealing to the straight desire of women don't help push their ideas. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That's why they prefer to talk about how Witch from Mercury and Virgin Road brought girls to anime, because those shows full of Bishoujo are easier for them to sit through and they fit inside their narrative, but don't think they care too much about those things, they don't
The Moral panic surrounding pedophilia is fueled not by care for kids or desire to protect them, but a desire to protect the body and image of young girls, to many when those girls are raped what's affect isn't their minds and body, but their maidenhood, virginity and purity
The pedophile is a monster, not for exploiting a girl, but because he took away her ability to be a "Woman", boys don't have maidenhood, in the view of society they're dirty from birth, that's why it's okay to exploit them.
It's not like there's isn't good ecchi anime being produced now days, but they all look constreined inside the same genre, "Yuri light CGDCT, with some pervert shots", usually made by Doga Kobo. In the past panty shots were a natural occurrence, every place had this twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Same thing with games and manga, now days if you want something with a hot bishie or a cute Bishoujo you have to search for a Gacha or some manga published in a small magazine, like the big ones still have some ecchi, but it feels limited to Shonen Magazine
Like, in the past you had this in Shonen Jump, it was on the cover. But now days just having a tame JK bathing scene in a chapter of a Jump manga is enough to get your work censored and blacklisted
I don't even disagree with the point the thread is trying to make, but it's ironic considering the person who's making those points. Yeah, Otaku stuff is much more liberated and daring when it comes to sexuality, this has to do with how Otaku authors deal with sexuality
They're more willing to play and add elements of fantasy to it. They don't care about labels or real life, as much as they care about exploring and having fun with certain ideas and concepts
(I'm gonna go on a rant here, I may sound schizo in some parts) I don't know when this happened, but the anime and manga sphere got dominated by basic bitches (male and female) who never consumed anything other than tumblr reviews and base the whole view of the medium on that
The discussions we have about Harem and Shoujo are examples of that, no one interacts with those genres or understand their fantasies, and they have no interest in interacting with it in any meaningful way, they just want surface level contact, enough to fuel their internet wars
That article tries to make Reverse Harems queer,because this is seem as quality, something opposite to the Cis-Straight-Men devil, but only someone who never touched those genres would say that. You can find Male-lead harem with gay kissing, but not Reverse Harems