It’s a good way of removing the features of something that are disgusting and replacing them with something likeable. A cute anime girl can’t be intimidating, and it’s hard to dislike her. Replace an invading coloniser that SA’s the local population with her and it becomes a fun romp in the periphery territories! Partaking in a fun romp is ok right? Even desirable!
That’s the level of propaganda they’re going for. They’re aiming to make being the imperialist desirable and the fun side to be on, which gets the audience onto that side, and batting for it years down the line after committing their identities to it. It’s quite literally a mask for the intimidating presence of male patriarchal violence that you can’t remove from the situation if you depicted male soldiers.
I saw someone complaining once about trans women using anime pfp online because it’s unrealistic, like what do they want them ro do? have a picture of their local starbucks barista as a pfp?
I actually want to expand this and say it’s basically identical to how animals were used to make countries and their actions less intimidating/bad. Depict a country as a rabbit, an eagle, a bear, etc. They’re disarming instead of scary soldiers.
This is the same. It operates on the same level and the anime girls take it further. It’s also slightly enlightening when viewed this way because anime girls are also not really treated as human beings, they’re treated more like creatures. Creatures doing bad things to other creatures is another form of distancing from the reality of humans torturing humans.
Amazingly well articulated!! I’ve raised a post in the centuriichan sub to try and scrub this shitstain off Lemmy and wish I could link to this post and your comment but hexbear defederation sucks major ass
It’s a good way of removing the features of something that are disgusting and replacing them with something likeable. A cute anime girl can’t be intimidating, and it’s hard to dislike her. Replace an invading coloniser that SA’s the local population with her and it becomes a fun romp in the periphery territories! Partaking in a fun romp is ok right? Even desirable!
That’s the level of propaganda they’re going for. They’re aiming to make being the imperialist desirable and the fun side to be on, which gets the audience onto that side, and batting for it years down the line after committing their identities to it. It’s quite literally a mask for the intimidating presence of male patriarchal violence that you can’t remove from the situation if you depicted male soldiers.
I’m surprised the artist made the conquered women look so sad.
Some of that tragedy is still bleeding through the glossy anime aesthetic.
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Could be interpreted as submissive and demure, which is how they like their women to be.
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I saw someone complaining once about trans women using anime pfp online because it’s unrealistic, like what do they want them ro do? have a picture of their local starbucks barista as a pfp?
I’m actually the real Palestine flag IRL
That also explains the anime girl profile pics they always use. Very informative, thank you!
I actually want to expand this and say it’s basically identical to how animals were used to make countries and their actions less intimidating/bad. Depict a country as a rabbit, an eagle, a bear, etc. They’re disarming instead of scary soldiers.
This is the same. It operates on the same level and the anime girls take it further. It’s also slightly enlightening when viewed this way because anime girls are also not really treated as human beings, they’re treated more like creatures. Creatures doing bad things to other creatures is another form of distancing from the reality of humans torturing humans.
Amazingly well articulated!! I’ve raised a post in the centuriichan sub to try and scrub this shitstain off Lemmy and wish I could link to this post and your comment but hexbear defederation sucks major ass