Feminist Analyses

Keroscene · 02-21-2013, 01:52 PM

Torn between wanting to participate, since TMNT has traditionally not been good at female characters and between wanting to avoid the kind of overwrought conversations you see in other fandoms on tumblr and such... you know the kind I mean, the kind which end in bloody acrimony because one side gets needlessly defensive and the other kind gets really nitpicky/starts slinging accusations around. It's not inevitable that every argument about sexism has to end that way, but nearly every argument about sexism within fandoms seems to end that way.

I don't think the current show is particularly sexist (i.e. it's as sexist as everything else is). I do think it's interesting that that there's a perception that this is primarily still a boy's thing and yet fandom does not back that up at all. Oh and if you look back at the old toon and some of the older comics, there's some dreadful sexist crap in there. Don't get me started on Pimiko's costume in Image TMNT or April's fainting or Raph's "ha! women!" comments in that old toon. And Irma was just.... wow.

02-21-2013, 01:52 PM	#11
Keroscene Foot Soldier Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 122	Torn between wanting to participate, since TMNT has traditionally not been good at female characters and between wanting to avoid the kind of overwrought conversations you see in other fandoms on tumblr and such... you know the kind I mean, the kind which end in bloody acrimony because one side gets needlessly defensive and the other kind gets really nitpicky/starts slinging accusations around. It's not inevitable that every argument about sexism has to end that way, but nearly every argument about sexism within fandoms seems to end that way. I don't think the current show is particularly sexist (i.e. it's as sexist as everything else is). I do think it's interesting that that there's a perception that this is primarily still a boy's thing and yet fandom does not back that up at all. Oh and if you look back at the old toon and some of the older comics, there's some dreadful sexist crap in there. Don't get me started on Pimiko's costume in Image TMNT or April's fainting or Raph's "ha! women!" comments in that old toon. And Irma was just.... wow.