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I know the person who made the original thread, and her hatred of Gotchard only happened after the show ended + wasn't about all the women (she loved the sisters and was very angry about what happened to them). in general, the only male character she had positive feelings about was Hotaro, but that gets lost in the conversation. I get the apprehension, but she's also known to Heisei I fans as the person who defends Kiva women + she co-runs an account dedicated to toku women.

I don't agree with all of her Gotchard thoughts, and people who only know her wrt to Gotchard will easily make assumptions on her feminist thoughts overall. there's no way for people who don't follow her to have context on how she engages with Rider content in general, but I can promise that the argument wasn't made in bad faith.

candy selling well is true! but that doesn't mean that the rest of the cultural context doesn't matter. Hanto fits the masculine archetype and the show points out that because of that he's not into sweets, but the way he relates to others who do like treats is non judgmental/accepting.

a tricky thing about Twitter is it's harder to have conversations + go into depth about issues. she could have expanded on the tragedy of female characters that she mentioned in her argument. she could have expanded on how fighting patriarchy starts by changing the perspectives of boys/young men. and in the past she could have expressed an actual feminist reading of Gotchard - but we're left with what was given and there's nothing more to be done with that.

i've heard my fair share of tokutwt hot takes over the years but "gavv is the most feminist rider series because men do chores and eat sweets" is truly one for the history books. cool stuff going on over there as always 👍

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the reason I specified Japan is because the target audience for the show is Japanese children/teenagers with an emphasis on boys.

I didn't specify location for the first point/said "in general" because I know it's an international problem, not just a Japanese one, but as an overseas fan I need to look at context for what happens in these shows - and that context is for the Japanese audience, there is X problem.

I'm not going to argue that Japan has a bigger or lesser sexism problem, to be honest, because I think the issues that feminists focus on are simply different depending on society & culture. so while yes, the issue of domestic work being left to women can be a broad social + media criticism, I highlighted a different cultural problem as well (stigma around sweets) because the people who are being taught differing view points based on what they're watching are young Japanese viewers.

and you're right, KR is pretty good about showing men being more active in domestic work! that still applies to the current argument even if other shows do the same (example: Agito).

i've heard my fair share of tokutwt hot takes over the years but "gavv is the most feminist rider series because men do chores and eat sweets" is truly one for the history books. cool stuff going on over there as always 👍

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I have left my job for federal government reasons

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showing up just to talk about toku? oh I'm sure, Bea.

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I don't think this reading is in fair faith when 1. there was more to the thread than these two points and 2. these two points actually do matter in the context of (Japanese) society.

in general there's a standard that cleaning is for girls & that translates into boys growing up into men who still think that women should be the housekeeper + an imbalance of domestic labor. countering that from a young age is important, so positioning Sachika as not the only person doing things such as cooking, organizing, and cleaning is a rejection of that standard.

in Japan, there is stigma against men enjoying sweets that is internalized even if it's no longer socially explicit. Hanto represents that in some extent by emphasizing that he does not like sweets, but at the same time there's no shaming of Shouma or Lakia (who, like Hanto, is positioned as more masculine).

like, I get that not everyone has the full context to what was happening/being said if it floated down your twitter feed. but even if not everything in the thread is agreeable, this is reductive.

i've heard my fair share of tokutwt hot takes over the years but "gavv is the most feminist rider series because men do chores and eat sweets" is truly one for the history books. cool stuff going on over there as always 👍

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turns out having a full time job means if you're not sleeping you're at work and don't have time to "make graphics" and "watch tokusatsu"

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APT. ⚡️🎸

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I finished my first week at my new job and I'm curious as to how training is going to go. I'm having a pretty good time so far but we haven't actually gotten into the work.

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Jammer: I just wanted to see if I could do it, you know?

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it's bug man hours

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"is shipping pro wrestlers RPF" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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newbie asked if we're supposed to look out for 'red flags' in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this........girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police

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Kamen Rider Gavv Poppin Gummy! Fanart by me. #kamenridergavv

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i'm tired of how boring the little free libraries are in my neighborhood. i'm going make a little newspaper to put in them. i will inject some whimsy and delight into this godforsaken suburb all by myself

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Friday Funnies!

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Jammer: Let's not ask too many questions while we're here, alright? Evan: No, no. I love this direction.