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michiruze · 7 months

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Many people have said that the best way to avoid dudebros and incels in fandom is to not interact once they make bigoted jokes, but however, there is an easier, surefire way to detect dudebros and incels, especially anime and manga, without having to interact with them:

Never trust people who are disgusted by Shoujo.

Never trust anyone who expresses disgust towards media catered to women (and non-men), be it Shoujo, Otome games, and more.

It is a misogyny litmus test, but hating Shoujo can reveal a lot about a person, it is most likely a sign of homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, and bigotry.

Let me explain,

Recently, bigoted dudebros and incels from all over the world has been more millitant on their bigotry online due to.....more media being catered for women. Hiding behind their hentai and fanservice girl profile pictures, they were upset as hell, spitting out angry 'thinkpieces' on 'the double standards feminists has on media with fanservice' --- solely for the fact that there are media where male characters are treated like female characters in media that dudebros enjoy.

The way dudebros describe male characters in Shoujo and Joseimuke media also veers to homophobia and transphobia, calling them 'gay' or misgendering them, all because of these characters not adhering to their standards of masculinity.

They also carry these views to women (and non-men) who enjoy them with slut-shaming to boot, solely for the fact that they see and treat male characters the same way that dudebros see and treat female characters.

When dudebros sees women and non-men getting attracted to male characters, they see it as a threat, as a reflection on how they would treat real men (ignoring that there are sapphic, ace, and aro shoujo enjoyers!), as if they weren't already treating real women like shit the same way they do it to female characters.

"But I don't like Shoujo! I just don't like it, not in the misogynistic way incels do!"

This isn't a call for anyone to 'go like Shoujo now' --- disliking Shoujo is fair, it is not a bad thing to dislike it. You don't have to like it, Shoujo is not for everyone after all. Romance and shipping is not for everyone after all (even though there are Shoujo media with no romance).

Just stay in your lane and stay away from Shoujo-positive spaces, don't be assholes to people who like Shoujo.

But feeling disgust over media made for women (and queer people) and being assholes towards people who enjoy it is not a good behaviour.

At this point and climate, Shoujo hate often means "Women are not allowed to have things made for them, because it will turn them into delusional sluts who will threaten real masculinity. Women will be so poisoned by Shoujo that they will become man-hating sexuality-collecting gender-queers who will not bend to real men."

And it happens all too often. It is no longer cringe culture, but outright hate.

That is why Shoujo hate is gateway to bigotry.

#shoujo hate is gateway to bigotry #cw: slutshaming #being extra spicy tonight #and also about Lynette's character design getting flak from korean incels #because misogyny in anime and manga spaces is hitting all-time high lately #and i went viral on twitter for tweeting this exact post in my native language #people relate to it #and people have been sharing their experiences with bigoted dudebros #and pointing out that ALL of them have a disgust towards shoujo #yes this is also about the discourse surrounding What in Hell Is Bad #i want to know if this is a universal grievance or not #discourse #michiruze.txt

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kansascityhappenings · 6 years

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Former White House staffer becomes Twitter sensation with very first post

Gary Lee had zero tweets to his name as of Jan. 12th. That changed in a big way on Jan. 13, when he posted this series of tweets about his Korean heritage and suddenly became Twitter famous, reports Yahoo News.

Lee once worked as a staffer in the Obama White House, and in one of the tweets, he explains that he visited the Oval Office on his last day in 2011, and Obama greeted him by saying “hello” in Korean. Official photographer Pete Souza captured Lee’s delighted reaction, and Lee then recounts how fellow White House staffer (and actor) Kal Penn teared up when Lee told him about the exchange.

4. On my last day, I went into the Oval Office and POTUS greeted me by saying, "안녕하세요". Hello, in Korean. I’m lucky bc @PeteSouza captured that exact moment. pic.twitter.com/sKl5ie0DLM

— Gary Lee (@whoisgarylee) January 13, 2018

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“Think about what you just said,” he recalls Penn saying. “How incredible that is. On your last day of work at the White House, after your years of service, the first African-American president greeted you in your parents’ native language. I started crying too.”

Lee, who was leaving the White House to go study in South Korea, says his parents “could never have fathomed” such an encounter. Both worked multiple jobs and “made incalculable sacrifices” for their sons, and he wraps up by declaring “what a beautiful, incredible nation of immigrants we are.”

His tweets were set off by a report that President Trump pressed a Korean-American woman, a New York native, about where she was from during an intelligence briefing. “That struck a chord with me,” Lee writes.

Whatever the impetus, Lee’s initial Twitter post has been liked more than 150,000 times, and the Washington Post rounds up some of the reaction, which generally boils down to a sentiment expressed in this tweet: “Omg I dont even know you and I love you Gary Lee.” (This teacher’s viral tweet revealed how deep first-graders are.)