As a woman who prefers clean anime, I heard from a few sources that this anime was really great and was worth watching, so I decided to check it out.
To be completely honest, I couldn't get past the first episode. I was so disgusted by the negative, sexist portrayal of men.
(SPOILER WARNING)-----
Not even one minute past the intro, there's already a male in the show being physically assaulted by a woman, as if that's OK/funny/acceptable. I kept watching, and that's all this show contained - the men are shown as incompetent, weak, pathetic - to the point where the viewers are probably meant to question if the men would even survive without the women there. -----
What is it with anime, and portraying men as inferior to women? I noticed this with quite a few different shows. Still, that does not excuse the writers of this particular show of creating this horrible-excuse-for-a-women's-empowerment-anime.
What bothers me is that this is going to send the wrong message to girls (that males should be treated as second-class citizens), as well as to boys (that they should feel ashamed of being male). I couldn't imagine the backlash if there was a show depicting women as inferior, getting physically assaulted - shown in a funny, light-hearted manner...
To be completely honest, I couldn't get past the first episode. I was so disgusted by the negative, sexist portrayal of men.
(SPOILER WARNING)-----
Not even one minute past the intro, there's already a male in the show being physically assaulted by a woman, as if that's OK/funny/acceptable. I kept watching, and that's all this show contained - the men are shown as incompetent, weak, pathetic - to the point where the viewers are probably meant to question if the men would even survive without the women there. -----
What is it with anime, and portraying men as inferior to women? I noticed this with quite a few different shows. Still, that does not excuse the writers of this particular show of creating this horrible-excuse-for-a-women's-empowerment-anime.
What bothers me is that this is going to send the wrong message to girls (that males should be treated as second-class citizens), as well as to boys (that they should feel ashamed of being male). I couldn't imagine the backlash if there was a show depicting women as inferior, getting physically assaulted - shown in a funny, light-hearted manner...