#it's kind of fascinating. I told my mom all of this after we watched epinagi and she looked at me like I was crazy | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

agnesandhilda · 2 months

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one of these days I'm gonna completely lose it and write about how blue lock's shounen genre misogyny (which isn't to say that it gets a pass because the shounen genre is known for being misogynistic. blue lock is worse than average in this regard. blue lock's very premise is built on misogyny in a way I don't think has been analyzed enough even by people who are aware of the real-world women's football it totally disregards) and accompanying shounen genre-typical totalizing ideal of masculinity result in giving the different play positions the characters have notable gendered connotations, mostly by accident

#bolo liveblogs #blue lock #tl;dr if you create a single-gender space that is centered around becoming the Best Adult you can be #(with the implicit assumption that this requires being the best adult of *that gender* that you can be specifically)#(growing up into the appropriate gendered role)#with a very specific path set out as the correct way to do that (being a striker)#...what does it mean to not be a striker? are non-strikers failed men? what does it mean to be an ''incorrect'' man?#it creates a weird pseudo-binary (trinary?) within the one-gender space of blue lock through sheer power of misogyny #it's kind of fascinating. I told my mom all of this after we watched epinagi and she looked at me like I was crazy

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