I saw this yesterday:
http://yukan.dasaku.net/?p=452
And it got me thinking, since the women bloggers are having their own Round Robin of Anime blogging, us blokes might as well have our own.
By this I do not mean discussions of how big the cup sizes of certain female Anime characters are. I mean talking about men’s issues in Anime. Is Goku from Dragonball Z a character based on unrealistic male expectations we enforce on ourselves, forever wanting more and more insane levels of power? Is Kimura from Azumanga Daioh problematic in his viewpoints about high school girls, and the messages he gives to his male students about how women should be treated? Or is he just a character put in there for laughs?
Have male Anime body types and gender construction led to the feminisation of men within the artform?
These questions and more, as soon as I get more people signing up to blog about them.
Sign up in the comments page, and remember, women have their own round robin at the moment, this is just for the guys to talk about our issues. I don’t consider it as petty revenge, only as a measure to ensure that feminist bloggers don’t take us out of context. I’ve already been roasted by Germaine Greer once in my life, and I’d appreciate it if women allowed men to ask questions about, and even question, the constructions of their gender.
Thank you to the developers of the original round robin for women bloggers for inspiring me to give the guys a chance to talk.
[edited because hyperlink doesn't work on my version of Blogger]
[edited again because Blogger is made of suck and fail, WordPress rocks though]
LOL! Haha sounds like fun!
“Or I’m being naive and not realising that most male Anime bloggers would rather blog Ecchi Deathmatches than deconstructing their male psyche in a meaningful way.” … YOU WERE ACTUALLY SERIOUS ABOUT THAT NO WAY COME ON YOU HAVE TO BE TROLLIN
@Marmot:
I troll you not. I actually care about modern masculinity and how it is constructed. It’s one of the things I wish more men would realise to be an important part of contemporary understanding of gender and how it builds identity.
It saddens me to think that we as men wouldn’t want to talk about important things like men’s issues, and I would appreciate it if I got some Geeks and Nerds who wanted to discuss these matters.
Hmm. I came across this post on your blogger site, and, not realising you have a WP outlet, commented there (perhaps not constructively). Let me make a second attempt.
Men are creatures of res publica; we perform, posture, preen. If we want to chat about masculinity – and perhaps we do – what’s to stop us doing it by a series of ping’d blog posts, so that all the shouting and drama is out in the open?
@Animanachronism
I’d be glad to do that, it’s just that I don’t know how to ping. It would be great if we got this out in the open. One blogger thought I was trolling when I was talking about a Secret Men’s Business Anime Blogger round robin, but it’s not that “secret” or discriminatory.
The idea of “secret men’s business” has little to do with Anime or blogging on surface value, the origins of the word come from Aboriginal tribes in Australia where the men of the tribe conduct ceremonies that women are forbidden to partake in, but women have “secret women’s business” all the same, which men can’t partake in due to strict tribal laws.
Using the idea of Secret Men’s Business and applying it to blogging, unusual an application I might have thought, I wanted to encourage men to blog about Anime and issues related to it in the lens of masculinity, inspired by the All Girls Round Robin only for Guys (real guys).
I hope that answers your questions, and ping back with some manly discussions!
Hmm. I’ll give it a shot, though it usually takes me a week at best to finish a post so don’t expect anything too soon!
As far as I know, if you’re using WordPress when you put in a link to the blog entry you want to ping WP automatically pings it when you publish, if you haven’t changed its default settings. But I’m not a technical person.
Oh, so this is where the rumored Men’s Round Robin originated. Gone before it began, mm? You should advertise it more, go around and annoy random people’s blogs. Trust me, it works. ;D
This is still on my mind. Just that my posts take a long time to gestate.