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[ozfi]

misogyny in agito past hojos pathetic useless waste of space behavior begin ... well it was always there tbh! [i think this began drafting at 17?]

seeing hojo as not someone with a specific vendetta against ozawa is a failure of the police by default. but then we bring in his teacher, tsukasa, who immediately addresses hikawa first at the table out of all three SAUL members, asks for his point of view, and then prompts ozawa to follow up on hikawa. like shes not the woman in charge of all of it. he asks if they know why, and hikawa goes uh.. and ozawa says No. We don't know yet. and he immediately says oh so you dont know ANYTHING you USELESS FUCKS. obviously we know where hojo gets it

the thing about ozawa is that she is a genius. she went to MIT young. she invented the entire G3 system with her bare hands. she runs SAUL and its her duty. but it does not Belong To Her. the other officers are all men, her senior officers are all men. and they constantly try to take the wheel out of her hands. they constantly take hojos word over her own despite his constant failures and proving himself to be a pathetic coward. ozawa gets NO special treatment, which in theory is reasonable, but she doesnt get Standard treatment either. no matter how smart she is, she is a woman, and in the police (or anywhere in the workforce) that means she has to tolerate pathetic loser men with no talent and no skill beyond being an obsessive bootlicking dipshit being treated as on the same level as her. IT FUCKING SUCKS!

even the addition of tsukasa as his mentor does not absolve him. take a gander at this very funny screenshot.

see, the plot in the episodes leading to 19 is that tsukasa is rigging the game against SAUL to get away with murder and nepotism, and in doing so being a misogynistic and condescending prick towards ozawa and her unit and their intelligence overall. the thing is that hojo goes along with this! there is no point in these episodes where he is acting differently than usual except when he realizes his mentor Probably killed someone. if he is otherwise, its because hes so happy to torment ozawa along with his mentor. if anything, this shows that hojo is good at detective work when he applies himself. but he doesnt apply himself to anything but trying to make ozawa's life worse because hes obsessed with the G3 unit.

the only person who gets the grace of a bias being removed is another man in a senior position. not a woman. never a woman.

and ozawa is still kind enough to invite him to bbq afterwards. 🖕

then, you know, V-1 with a board full of male builders, the "best in the world", trying to surpass the G3-X. there is no implication that hojo did a smidge of it himself.

"i flaunt you to express my own ability, but how dare you think youre anyone who matters". feeling threatened by her intellect to the point of admitting that if he saw G3-X's proposal he would give up on V-1, to try to knock her down pegs that she earned and deserves. these are all the kinds of people hojo allies with willingly! doubting her honesty and her will and her dedication to her job. not listening to her as a person and going over her head to the men in charge. and there is nothing ozawa can do about it but prove them wrong, over and over, even if they keep doubting the abilities shes proven she has. over and over.

even her own unit member!!!

ozawa is fantastic because these obstacles are neverending, but she never gives up, and she never truly backs down. she refuses to cede any undeserved ground. and her flaw is exactly the same as her strength: shes too smart, she makes things that are too powerful, and theyre hard for others to handle. G3-X injures hikawa so badly he should not be able to move. in that way, things that are too perfect are dangerous, and human flaw is what allows us to shine. it's not that she believed too much in either G3-X or hikawa, but instead that the pursuit of perfection is, in of itself, flawed. in that way, shes a true agito protagonist.

[eekmachine]

i'm so obsessed with soviet mosaics rn #lifeupdate

[foursaints]

taryn duarte. peter pettigrew. making your weakness your life. being scared and making bad choices and betraying your family, but only because they betrayed you first, they never cared, they always left you out, never treated you seriously, as an equal. the betrayal is a mistake. your end up regreting it. trying to stop it. a knife. cutting of your own hand vs cutting your husband's throat. the sacrifice. jude says taryn looks like a sacrifice in her wedding dress. peter sacrifices his hand to revive the dark lord. there's something there, something about your fear mixing with your anger. tell me i'm not crazy and you see it too

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ oh i see it. this is beautifully put. i think this ask describes the overarching iphigenia complex (and accompanying set of thematics) that they share... like! making weakness your "strength" is one of the few pre-prescribed avenues for agency that a young girl has at her disposal when navigating a hostile & threatening reality. it is also the one most commonly peddled to us. but its such a dangerous lie/trap with such questionable outcomes that im obsessed with using fictional characters to see that lie to its natural conclusion, which is almost always just as violent as the alternative (as with iphigenia).

i would also add lily evans as the third part of this character study. all three of them sort of orbit the general fantasy of "what if i could be so good & lovable, it would absolve me of being human?"

[dumbbitchhour]

Heussner & Co, Design for textile pattern, 18th c. x

[starfilled-galaxy]

it fuckin wimdy

[eclogues]

convinced daniel is being possessed by the spirit of burroughs with the way he consistently serves cunt since queer came out

he's kinda been serving cunt since he was in Angels but now that he did queer he's solidified himself in history as an old queen

[markiepop]

Colored

[keepthemacramesecret]

ok extremely glad i didnt end up skipping s3 of callan purely for this war games episode this is delightful cant blieve we're not constantly doing complicated metaphors for spy threats via dungeons and dragons

[foursaints]

why would you try to stop passionately caring about marauders 💔 oh the betrayal

💔💔 oh i only say these things because i know with absolute certainty that im never getting out of here... genuinely being into harry potter fanfic feels like falling for some type of evil bargain in a fairytale. like it might take different forms but it will never leave

[lakestar45]

Wanna be a boy but not in a trans way lolz

[dumbbitchhour]

Heussner & Co, Design for textile pattern, 18th c. x

[kittemfang]

art trade for the lovely @michaelmac6072... kitty time

[yourstorai]

I‘m in love with your new pfp girl you‘re so pretty (and with you too ofc)💕

Aww thank you glad you like it that means a lot to me 💘

[ozfi]

typing up a post on misogyny in agito (which is only the tip of the iceberg, only ep 18) (btw the themes of Condemning misogyny in agito not . agito's misogyny. that can wait until it gets even more apparent) and ...... its not just shouichi though. shouichis doing the feminine work, true. its most obvious with him. but hikawa, through his care for, defense of, and loyalty to ozawa, is treated with a similar level of contempt and disregard as her. ryo is. ............ i feel like i dont even have to explain ryo just. wow. but its not like theyre stand-ins for the sake of displaying misogyny entirely, because ozawa is RIGHT THERE (the post is being made.), but more about how men who dont live up to a certain arbitrary level of masculinity are condemned for the failure to achieve it.

in this way they are othered. theres a lot of individual things i could say about this, especially given my usual favorite avenue of analysis, but i think in the realm of agito's themes it is supposed to indicate them as Human over anything else, gender included, because those "flaws" are actually their strengths.