From: v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage - Back Again from the Mists!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Anime, and He May Not
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:01:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1992Sep6.021623.10947@panix.com>, jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes...
>In <37730@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
>>For starters, how 'bout "your own" Lovely Angels.  C'mon, these are a
>>pair of characters whose breast sizes are actually written in the
>>series.  Can we say the same about Madoka?  Lum?  Kyoko?  Priss?  Nausicaa?

I wouldn't know about most of these characters, though I never niticed that 
Priss was THAT well endowed, and Nausicaa just isn't (then again I don't
know how old she is.)  Lum isn't all that robust, it's just more noticeable
in the bikini 8-).

>If you were a male "Lovely
>Angel"  do you think you would be running around in a G-string and a gun?

Ummmmm... MALE lovely angel?  First off, The Dirty Pair's official codename is
Lovely Angels.  There are no other lovely angels, much less male ones.  Second,
last I checked, WWWA uses only female field operatives, so once again this 
Characterization falls flat.  Third, though the uniform may be sexist, there
are MANY times when the DP are more fully clothed, and, I might add, their
suits emphasize a physique which could be considered somewhat busty.  Sexist?
Perhaps the clothing is, but at least the characters aren't helpless, little
bimbos who spend all their time being kidnapped.  You take what you can get.

>Bubble Gum Crisis, when stripped of animation and techinical prowess is
>written and plotted no better than an A-Team or a Knight Rider episode.
>Anime could be, and at times is, better than that.  Look at Honneamise,
>Laputa, Harmageddon etc......

I liked Knight Rider and A-Team.  They may not be great literature, but I found
them highly entertaining.  And IF the costumes and figures of the characters
ARE sexist,and in BGC I'd say you were overreacting a bit, the plot generally
is not. (Though I DO wish that the one male character on the team weren't
a little dweeb who is constantly left out of the action while he serves to
help the other members with their menial chores and connstantly stares down
their shirts.  People who complain about stupid stereotypes just LOVE to look
the other way at male Stereotypes which are no more accurate than the female 
ones.)

On that note, my point.  You're sick of Busty females Scantily clad?  Well I'M
Sick of Muscle-bound, Brainless, males bursting from their clothes!

It's not sexist if it's uniformly exploitive.

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