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Something I wrote about Manga.

Manga plays an important role in promoting tolerance for gender minorities.

Manga is a cultural phenomena in Japan and the rest of the world. It’s not exactly a genre but an art of storytelling comprising the interests of all age groups. The style is considered to have its origin in ukiyo-e-prints of Hokusai in 19 century. The tradition lies in the creation of humorous art. There are tales of men who love to cook and woman who love to eat, Sommeliers having their extraordinary penchant for wine and the list goes on. Though the manga tradition has been categorised into four distinctive groups based on gender stereotypes, like ‘shonen’ being targeted for the young male audience and ‘shojo’ being set to arrest the attention of young female audience, while ‘sinen’ and ‘josel’ getting marketed for the older male and the female consumers respectively, significant crossover in the readership has been thoroughly noticed on the grounds of demanding good books over gendered stereotyped ones. Manga, as a mass medium of serialised characters has played a socially critical as well as an escapist role since the 1970s. However during the 20s and 30s, manga was explicitly a matter of juvenile interest, but then, after the economic boom in the post-World War 2 era, it expanded its market for all ages and social sections while exploring vast amount of subject matter. They however, primarily, focussed on sports, large eyed adolescents, the adventures of samurai and gangsters, and tales that indulge into the deep layers of sex and violence, often evoking pornographic fantasies.

Yaoi, also known as boys love or BL is a genre in manga and other such media platforms such as anime, drama CDs etc. exploring the features of homoerotic relationships between male characters. The general has been created by woman authors for female audience but the section attracts male readers too. It is basically defined by its characteristic feature of paring the male characters in the role of protagonists. The sexual top is known as ‘seme’ who becomes the active pursuer while the passive pursuant one is known as ‘uke’ or the sexual bottom. The term yaoi dates back to the doujinshi culture of the late 1970s to the early 1980s. It was then as self-deprecating way of referring to an amateur fan art parodying the mainstream manga and anime depicting their male characters in vague or explicitly sexual circumstances. Such writing or art resembles two Helens Cixous' idea of the “I’ecriture feminine” or the feminine fiction where writing is a way of pleasure for women to celebrate their desires by creating narratives around effeminate bodies thereby suggesting for a safe distance for the women’s desires and physical selves while defamiliarising the female body by making it somewhat male, reducing the vulnerability of woman, often implicated in an overtly sexual text and showing a way to expand her boundaries that she would not have done in real life, but through erotic discourse, anchored to the male body of the passive uke.

Shoujo manga stories also play an important part in the featuring of romances between young boys or young men from the mid 1970s.

In many Yaoi mangas, the performative male bodies, being the key to the unfolding of the narratives, especially during sexual acts, do succumb to heterosexual roles. In sexually violent manga of the yaoi genre, the male body of uke performs the role of the body to be violated which may even include male pregnancy(mpreg), pheromones going out of control etc. Therefore the romanticised, beautiful male body(bishounen) is made to play various roles ranging from pornography and wish fulfilment to a aesthetic beauty and different ideas of ‘tough love,’ as often the victim is portrayed to be falling in love with the assailant and forgiving his trespassing. These tales cater exclusively to the female psychosexuality, as they are produced by and for women and as there is no involvement of the female body in the stories, enter amount of pleasure that is derived from these texts is through mental correlation.

‘Boku Patalliro!’ is a Japanese manga series which explores the themes of yaoi, was written and illustrated by Mineo Maya. The plot focusses on comedy, primarily the weird adventures of Patalliro himself. Generally episodic in nature, the subplots often have little connection to the main one, other than involving the same identities.

Patalliro du Malyner VIII is the 10 year old diabetic child King of Malynera who grooms himself as a cat when he finds himself in frustrating circumstances and mimics the run of a cockroach when there is the need to speed up. In 1982-‘83, when homosexuality was still considered a taboo, Patalliro daringly flaunted it for laughs. Bancoran is an MI6 agent appointed by the British to be Patalliro’s personal bodyguard, is an efficient killer. The character identifies himself as an effeminate homosexual person. There are instances of Patalliro making fun of Bancoran's sexual nature which the latter is forced to accept owing to the royal advantage that the former enjoys. Bancoran is constantly frustrated because the enemy-agent assassins that he fights off to maintain Patalliro’s safety are the ones he fantasizes about. Patalliro himself seems to have interesting Bancoran and often tries to seduce him through various disguises or role-playing likes of which are that of a pretty boy or a beautiful woman.

Presence of beautiful, effeminate bishounens are abundant in the shounen-ai mangas, as well as socially accepted good looking Tamanegis (King’s group of elite guards) as bi-seinens in disguise. Patalliro’s narrative is parodic and pokes fun at itself through parodying the shounen-ai culture in many ways. Mild boy-on-boy actions, lighthearted atmosphere and good vibes are the salient features of the shounen-ai manga even if there are mentions of violence, it's not extreme. Another yaoi trope is the mannerisms and the gaits of the characters being very dignified to match with their physical beauty.

The semes are amazing lovers and are able to deal with their counterpart’s tantrums. Bancoran's relationship with Maraich, who once tried to assassinate him and almost regularly beats him up, is that of a regular heterosexual couple and he takes care of Maraich like a ‘husband should'. Maraich, a firm believer of monogamous relationship based on mutual loyalty gets pregnant despite being a man which, kind of makes their picture of domestic bliss complete.

However, when the subject of tolerance towards gender minority shown through manga is being discussed, the readers and critical thinkers should keep in mind that the concept of consent is often overlooked in a text emphasising on overtly sexual portions. The seme-uke relationships are often devoid of permission and the way they get portrayed through the mangas, is nothing but a normalisation of manipulation and glorification of the violation of bodily autonomy,. Body shaming and extremely unconventional body features creating serious insecurity and unrealistic expectations among Japanese gay men isn’t something that should be considered tolerant in any sense. Gay men often feel uncomfortable at their representation in such texts where bodies and sexuality are produced and consumed as tools of entertainment for women. However, the question of sexual exploration vs one sided homosexual ‘love’ being imposed upon the other is not raised as there has already been the normalisation of the disturbing trend in Japanese pornography, both gay and straight, of the sexual recipient not acting according to his/her will as words like ‘iya’ meaning ‘no’, ‘yamete' meaning ‘stop', ‘itai’ meaning ‘it hurts' get frequently used. Surely, manga covering the yaoi genre has great representation of the gay sexual love and relationships but the absence of consent in most cases doesn’t really make it tolerant for the gender minorities. Mere representations are not enough and the concept of free will in a healthy relationship should be a much discussed topic in the manga tales. It’s high time we realise that an act upon it.

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Videocom Krypton 22 launched with Android Nougat and IR Blaster

The Krypton 22 comes with eight megapixel rear digital camera with twin tone LED flash and 5 megapixels the front camera with Selfie LED Flash.

Videocon has launched its ultra-modern cellphone – Krypton 22 for Rs 7,2 hundred. The Videocon Krypton 22 comes ready wit the today’s version of Android, IR Blaster for controlling 1/3-party home equipment and electronics, OTG help for USB connectivity for pen-drives and other USB-powered add-ons and a slender design.

Krypton 22 comes with the VoWifi function which allows the consumer to use the identical telephone quantity and the same smartphone dialer interfaces whilst making a call over the cell community or over any WiFi network and VoLTE (Voice-over-LTE), a generation that permits voice calls to be carried over LTE networks.

The Videocon Krypton 22 comes with 5 inch IPS show, 4G with VoLTE/VoWiFi, 8 megapixels rear camera with twin tone LED flash and 5 megapixels front digicam with Selfie LED Flash, Android’s 7.0 Nougat running gadget, 2450 mAh battery, and 2GB RAM with 16GB ROM and expandable up to 64GB expandable memory, 1.1 GHz quad middle processor.

The IR Blaster in the cellphone can manipulate Televisions, set pinnacle boxes, fans, Stereo sound systems, Air conditioners, DVD gamers and so forth. without their faraway manipulate, from the Krypton 22 itself. It is powered with MiraVision display which enhances the image nice for the show. Leveraging MediaTek’s algorithms knowledge, MiraVision gives a number of visible enhancements for photos and movies, at the same time as maintaining strength.

Krypton 22 also comes with SOS-Be-Safe and panic button. The SOS-Be-Safe feature lets in users to alert they’re close to and pricey ones and tell them of user’s exact region in case of emergencies. It comes pre-cooked up an app referred to as Shoto, which mechanically organizes photographs & motion pictures into albums and enables discovery with pics that buddies take. With Shoto, customers get a free backup on the cloud for all their media and can just click away.

The handset also gives the 1-year subscription of Eros Now & 1 Complete model Gameloft game.

Akshay Dhoot, Head of technology & Innovation, Videocon, commented at the launch, “Videocon phone’s vision has been to come up with merchandise that no longer simply meet customers’ needs but exceed their expectations. With Krypton 22, we want to make sure that this new product delights our consumers in every way.”

New Promising Features Are Introduced to the Android Nougat

  Although available currently for the Google Pixel and the Nexus phones, the latest Android Nougat has a number of improvements in its latest version 7.1.1. It allows for a lot to be done with your smartphones and a lot of features that Android developers can use to create modern and innovative mobile apps. Here are some of the features that make Android Nougat better in terms of user experience and productivity:

3D Touch type

This feature was initially only available for the Pixel phones. But the Android 7.1.1 update makes these features now available for all phones running the Android operating system. This feature allows you to tap the app icon and hold it until you see a submenu that contains certain app-specific quick options on a pop-up. This gives you quick access to certain features of the app.

Split screen apps

You can now run two applications side by side on a single screen. There is an option to enable the recent apps multitasking option. You can then choose which apps to see simultaneously on the screen. For example, you can browse the web and work on a document at the same time. You also have the ability to drag an image or text from one app and drop it into another.

Double tap to switch apps

You can simply double tap the multitasking button or the recent apps button to switch apps instantly. To return to the current app, you need to simply double tap again.

Data saver

Smartphone apps sometimes continue sending and receiving data even when in the background. If you do not have the right data plan configured from your network carrier, this might turn out to be very expensive. With the latest version of Android Nougat, you can simply turn on Data Savings mode and specify which app can access data in the background.

Notification controls

If you wish to stop notifications from a particular app, you no longer need to sift through individual app settings. All you need to do is to pull down the notifications bar and choose the app that you do not wish to see notifications from and select your preference for the app: “show notifications silently”, “block all notifications” or “don’t silence or block”.

Expressions

Emojis are not a part of all conversations. The number of emojis has been increased depicting a range of professions and a lot more expressions. You can also send animated GIF images directly from the on-screen keyboard while you use supported apps such as Google Messenger and Hangouts.

Google has confirmed that currently, only 0.4% of the smartphones are running this update currently – globally. This will change significantly and a lot more phones will have this update rolled out. The Android Nougat has a lot of promising new features that can be effectively used by app developers to create apps that are in line with the latest and greatest trends in the mobile domain.

The Arm Blaster – How to Use it For Big Biceps Gains

  So that you need huge biceps and you’ve got being the usage of pretty much each exercising acknowledged to the guy but not anything seems to work. You have even used the king of all bicep exercises-the status barbell curl and you continue to have no muscular tissues to expose for it

So what’s the answer?

Properly in this article, I can show you the way to use the standing bicep curl and upload a new twist to it with a purpose to stimulate all of the muscle tissues on you to need on your arms.

The motive why your biceps do not reply to conventional training is that you are probably the use of an excessive amount of weight and you are possibly the usage of too much momentum whilst appearing any workout. To clear up this problem we will use the arm blaster. The arm blaster is a harness that you slide over your neck. It supports your arms so that you can’t cheat when curling the bar. This permits all the stress to go into the bicep muscles which makes it get all of the muscle stimulation

Right here is how to use it:

The movement you’ll be the use of is the standing bicep curl which you can know is the king of all sports for the simple reason that it turns on the maximum quantity of muscular tissues inside the bicep muscular tissues.

Select a weight on the way to allow you to perform eight to 10 repetitions to wonderful failure. Now installation the bar with the needed weight. Use an underneath hand grip and a shoulder width grip. Positioned your arm blaster on. While you are completed snatch the barbell and stand along with your knees barely bent and with the barbell placing to your thighs.

Now together with your elbows firmly tucked in your aspects, in reality, curl the weights until they reach shoulder peak. Maintain the contraction for a is counted off three after which slowly opposite movement. Do three units of this making sure you take each set to superb failure

Do now not teach your biceps extra than two times every week. You must make sure you do not over-educate the palms with this movement. Thanks to the arm-blaster tool this motion may be very intense and you’ll get more muscle stimulation out of it than by means of acting infinite sets of curls the use of unfastened shape

This is all there may be to build massive arms. I endorse you operate the arm blaster. You might not grow larger bicep muscles quicker using every other workout.

So what’s the solution?

Properly in this text, I can show you how to use the standing bicep curl and upload a brand new twist to it on the way to stimulate all the muscular tissues on you need to your arms.

The motive why your biceps don’t reply to conventional training is which you are likely the usage of an excessive amount of weight and you’re in all likelihood the use of an excessive amount of momentum while appearing any exercise. To clear up this problem we will use the arm blaster. The arm blaster is a harness which you slide over your neck. It helps your hands so that you can not cheat when curling the bar. This allows all of the stress to enter the bicep muscle tissues which makes it get all the muscle stimulation

Right here is the way to use it:

The movement you may be using is the standing bicep curl which you can understand is the king of all sporting activities for the simple motive that it turns on the most amount of muscle groups in the bicep muscles.

Select a weight that will let you perform eight to 10 repetitions to advantageous failure. Now installation the bar with the needed weight. Use a below hand grip and a shoulder width grip. Put your arm blaster on. When you are achieved snatch the barbell and stand along with your knees slightly bent and with the barbell hanging for your thighs.

Now together with your elbows firmly tucked on your facets, really curl the weights until they attain shoulder top. Preserve the contraction for a matter of 3 after which slowly opposite motion. Do 3 sets of this making sure you take every set to nice failure

Do not teach your biceps greater than twice a week

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. Way to the arm-blaster device this motion is very severe and you will get extra muscle stimulation out of it than through acting countless units of curls the usage of free shape

That is all there may be to construct large hands. I endorse you use the arm blaster. You won’t grow larger bicep muscle mass quicker the use of every other exercising.After creating a niche in the retail industry, Amazon is all set to occupy the call center industry. This is certainly a big threat for the businesses in this industry, as Amazon is known for its capability of assessing the target market and coming up with groundbreaking solutions that are armed to swing competitors. Founded in the year 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is a leading E-commerce and cloud computing company. The main factor that distinguishes this organization from its competitors is how it has strategically acquired a huge share of the international retail market. If you assess the brand’s logo then you can see there is a smiley shaped pointer that points from A to Z. This logo signifies that Amazon is happy to serve you with anything and everything you need, from A to Z. Amazon is one amongst the biggest beneficiaries of the internet business boom and will soon revolutionize the call center industry.