Beating a dead horse
Feb. 6th, 2004 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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hardartist), the writer/artist of Sexy Losers (and The Thin H-Line before it), made a post about his place in the comic world, and how "mainstream" artists look down upon him. Today he made a follow-up post which has some interesting and timely points. (He's American, but he's been living in Japan for the past many years.)
"And I live in a place that shares the fascination [sex]. Nudity is commonplace in manga and anime, even those aimed at kids. In December, when it's calendar buying time, the latest nude calendars are proudly hung from the walls of bookstores. Porn is read openly on trains and in raamen shops, the sex trade is alive and well, and love hotels are available everywhere should you feel the need to have sex with someone you're with for a couple of hours."
And yet here, on a show that was about little more than violence and "beer is good and required to have fun" ads, people are in a uproar about a breast being shown. In fact, a Tennessee woman is suing Janet Jackson and others involved over seeing *gasp* a breast. (I know, I know. Us women can't take seeing breasts! Such foreign objects to us!)
Not only do I not understand this, I don't want to understand it. I want prostitution to be legal. I parents not to cover kids' eyes when a naked human body is in view. I want nudity on prime time TV. I want women to be permitted to go topless in any place a man can.
I wish there was a chance in hell of any of that happening in my lifetime.
hardartist), the writer/artist of Sexy Losers (and The Thin H-Line before it), made a post about his place in the comic world, and how "mainstream" artists look down upon him. Today he made a follow-up post which has some interesting and timely points. (He's American, but he's been living in Japan for the past many years.)"And I live in a place that shares the fascination [sex]. Nudity is commonplace in manga and anime, even those aimed at kids. In December, when it's calendar buying time, the latest nude calendars are proudly hung from the walls of bookstores. Porn is read openly on trains and in raamen shops, the sex trade is alive and well, and love hotels are available everywhere should you feel the need to have sex with someone you're with for a couple of hours."
And yet here, on a show that was about little more than violence and "beer is good and required to have fun" ads, people are in a uproar about a breast being shown. In fact, a Tennessee woman is suing Janet Jackson and others involved over seeing *gasp* a breast. (I know, I know. Us women can't take seeing breasts! Such foreign objects to us!)
Not only do I not understand this, I don't want to understand it. I want prostitution to be legal. I parents not to cover kids' eyes when a naked human body is in view. I want nudity on prime time TV. I want women to be permitted to go topless in any place a man can.
I wish there was a chance in hell of any of that happening in my lifetime.
