"I think that the problem is that American comics do not provide the emotional content girls crave. That is why we love Japanese comics. Neither really provides a decent role model, and Japanese comics tend to reinforce sexist, negative stereotypes of girls and women, but at least the characters are three dimensional.
We cannot change the ideals of another country, especially when our own country is in a state of female identity crisis and celebration of raunch culture. We cannot stop girls from reading shoujo manga, nor should we. Japanese comics offer us the rare chance to view another culture different from our own. But, if we want girls to get "the right message," we have to send it to them ourselves. We have to make our own comics. We have to be the change we want to see in American comics and perhaps even in American culture."
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Date: 2009-05-07 09:13 am (UTC)"I think that the problem is that American comics do not provide the emotional content girls crave. That is why we love Japanese comics. Neither really provides a decent role model, and Japanese comics tend to reinforce sexist, negative stereotypes of girls and women, but at least the characters are three dimensional.
We cannot change the ideals of another country, especially when our own country is in a state of female identity crisis and celebration of raunch culture. We cannot stop girls from reading shoujo manga, nor should we. Japanese comics offer us the rare chance to view another culture different from our own. But, if we want girls to get "the right message," we have to send it to them ourselves. We have to make our own comics. We have to be the change we want to see in American comics and perhaps even in American culture."