We just got a free money cheque from the government, and I'll take the money, but I also understand that it's money stolen from my grandkids unless the budget is balanced.
I saw a video asking why the boys liked Powerpuff girls, with the underlying assumption of the video being that Powerpuff girls was actually intended for girls.
In the book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, they talk about the concept of mu. This idea is that it doesn't matter what answer you give to a question, because the question is wrong. So in this video you are trying to answer the question of "why were the Powerpuff girls popular with boys even though it was a show meant for girls", and the answer is to unask the question because the question is wrong.
Powerpuff girls was never intended for girls, it was always intended for boys. It is right in the story of its creation, that the show creator put together a set of designs for their brother's birthday. The designs were not feminine to speak of, they were very male coded. Three girls who represent sort of idyllic fantasies of femininity (in 8 year old form) participating in wanton violence against monsters of the week.
This isn't a new idea, of creating a mythology of warrior women pointed at men. In antiquity, the story of the Amazons was essentially aimed at men, not so much women who don't care about fighting. In the middle ages, the story of Joan of Arc may have been empowering for women, but it was a story aimed at men. Japan being a modern civilization that has not yet fallen into postmodernism, quite frequently has women in their shounen stories, which are definitely pointed at young men, and of course postmodernism will always take the opportunity to subvert expectations, though I would argue that Powerpuff girls isn't necessarily a postmodern story since a lot of it's underlying superstructure is modernist in nature.
So at the end of the day, boys like Powerpuff girls because it's a well made cartoon for boys, not because they are somehow subverting expectations.
One of my favorite examples of this from anime which is a modernist art form, is the Rozen maiden series, particularly the first and second seasons of the first series. It felt very peculiar watching a show where almost every character is a woman, but when you look at the show as a whole it is clear it is almost exclusively designed for men, and the root message is about men.
In the book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, they talk about the concept of mu. This idea is that it doesn't matter what answer you give to a question, because the question is wrong. So in this video you are trying to answer the question of "why were the Powerpuff girls popular with boys even though it was a show meant for girls", and the answer is to unask the question because the question is wrong.
Powerpuff girls was never intended for girls, it was always intended for boys. It is right in the story of its creation, that the show creator put together a set of designs for their brother's birthday. The designs were not feminine to speak of, they were very male coded. Three girls who represent sort of idyllic fantasies of femininity (in 8 year old form) participating in wanton violence against monsters of the week.
This isn't a new idea, of creating a mythology of warrior women pointed at men. In antiquity, the story of the Amazons was essentially aimed at men, not so much women who don't care about fighting. In the middle ages, the story of Joan of Arc may have been empowering for women, but it was a story aimed at men. Japan being a modern civilization that has not yet fallen into postmodernism, quite frequently has women in their shounen stories, which are definitely pointed at young men, and of course postmodernism will always take the opportunity to subvert expectations, though I would argue that Powerpuff girls isn't necessarily a postmodern story since a lot of it's underlying superstructure is modernist in nature.
So at the end of the day, boys like Powerpuff girls because it's a well made cartoon for boys, not because they are somehow subverting expectations.
One of my favorite examples of this from anime which is a modernist art form, is the Rozen maiden series, particularly the first and second seasons of the first series. It felt very peculiar watching a show where almost every character is a woman, but when you look at the show as a whole it is clear it is almost exclusively designed for men, and the root message is about men.
"what!! America wants to impose a tariff? That's an outrage! We must stop buying from that country and buy from the authoritarian dictatorship with actual ethnic concentration camps instead!"
I seem to remember a former vice president saying after 6 months of violent riots "they're not gonna stop [...] And they should not".
Hope they look into that. Nobody is above the law.
Hope they look into that. Nobody is above the law.
It's funny that these people claim to be against nationalism until rubber meets road and it's time to show it.
Suddenly they'll show you exactly which nations they love and hate.
It's our own damn fault for voting that little bitch Trudeau in for the past 10 years. The idiot went all mean girls on the president of the united states and now we're paying the price. We got exactly what we were paying for.
Suddenly they'll show you exactly which nations they love and hate.
It's our own damn fault for voting that little bitch Trudeau in for the past 10 years. The idiot went all mean girls on the president of the united states and now we're paying the price. We got exactly what we were paying for.
Wow, that's actually something incredibly relevant to today, because everyone is so focused on the here and now they don't realize their own dynasties will be wiped out.
Perhaps based on what everyone's saying, we could say Ramses has the best PR team, but perhaps wasn't the best Pharaoh overall.
Perhaps based on what everyone's saying, we could say Ramses has the best PR team, but perhaps wasn't the best Pharaoh overall.
As I recall, if you were going to pick a "best pharaoh", I think the one most ancient Egyptians would consider the answer to be Ramses II, who had a long an prosperous reign, as I recall he ruled until he died in his 80s. In the same way that most of the empires of Europe wanted to claim to be the descendants of the Roman empire for 1000 years after the end of the western Roman Empire, for centuries after his reign different pharaohs tried to claim to be a reincarnation of Ramses II. If you're the ruler your descendants measure yourself against, I can't help but think that's a good indicator of your success.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZgeGrbg-74
Ah, and it looks like they actually made two versions -- one for glorious nihon, and one for the gaijin.
Ah, and it looks like they actually made two versions -- one for glorious nihon, and one for the gaijin.
Maybe we're looking at different things, because the flex tape I bought is like a sixteenth of an inch of pure rubber.
I've actually got some flex tape on my bathtub right now, I need to replace the bathtub this year, it's one of those fiber glass ones that leaked. It works really good.
All you have to remember the history of localization, in the US there were lots of times where a show that was clearly in Japan would suddenly be in america, and given that the three countries of China Korea and Japan don't always have the best relations, the idea of doing something Petty like setting a Korean story in Japan doesn't seem entirely outside of the realm of possibility.
"just the facts" is how I want my military run tbh.
Fancy words are for the diplomats, fancy Ideas for the artists and philosophers. How do we kill the enemy?
Fancy words are for the diplomats, fancy Ideas for the artists and philosophers. How do we kill the enemy?
