#have special attention given to how emotionally broken they are bc they are especially scarred not bc they are women | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

vonkarma2 · 2 months

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ultimately my enjoyment is hampered because it is low key sexist bc it takes place in an alternate universe where Sigmund Freud is real. though I did still like it for the most part but I hate Sigmund Freudddd Utena better

#Btw noril don’t read these tags there are spoilers #like idk id have to think abt it more maybe talk abt it with someone else #like does this overall criticize or reinforce gender roles slash heterosexuality #bc like shinji clearly is not the ideal of masculinity and I don’t think that’s seen as a bad thing bc its not like toji’s personality #is seen all that positively either #+ obviously shinji not being a stone cold murderer like gendo wants is a good thing lol #and shinji is straight up into kaworu obviously #but there are a lot of counter examples as well #also I think the adult female characters are all undermined by their sexuality #like ofc gendo and the other old bitch whose name I forget are motivated by their love for yui #but they are stone cold about it. I don’t want to see ritsuko break down crying abt how gendo doesn’t love her dawg #to the point where she is choking out rei being jealous of a child #I think to some extent the show is aware of there being a power imbalance between men and women but even if its treating the #Female characters as distinct individuals worthy of success I think it is a) victimizing them b) claiming there is an inherent unchanging #biological basis for all of these things #pitying of women rather than having contempt for them lol #the only mentally stable person is kaji #you could also say ofc that the 4 main characters who are the most miserable and traumatized #have special attention given to how emotionally broken they are bc they are especially scarred not bc they are women #since obviously shinji is there <I think he’s a trans girl anyway but we are talking abt authorial intent #but I think the way they are treated and the nature of their problems especially asuka and misato is highly highly gendered #not a bad thing inherently since obviously their gender impacts their life #but it does feel less like bc they are a woman society treats them badly #and more like bc they are a woman they are weaker and more emotional and easily hurt. or more emotional about how they are hurt #and shinji is like them bc he is particularly weak #I’ve only seen the show not the movie or rebuilds but him being the only one to resolve his arc positively #asukas mom killing herself over a man ritsuko and her mom and misato self destructing over men #<made worse bc they are grown women so theoretically more mature but since they are susceptible to sexuality they are weaker #than even the female children #‘it’s sad that men have all the control but men will always have all the control’ it feels like. idk thoughhh

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