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Meanwhile, there are anime with female child abuse victims where this is explored! Again, might I recommend Princess Tutu? The Woman Called Fujiko Mine? Penguindrum? This is a popular topic in anime, there’s no reason to defend crappy half-assed attempts (if that)! Well, I am one, and…this part of her background is never more than hinted at? I wouldn’t be surprised if Arakawa never even considered the implications of the tattoo thing.

I’ve seen people say that if you think Mangahood!Riza is a poorly-written, not-feminist character, you just hate female child abuse survivors.Like, good job completely misapplying your reading for Queer Theory 101 to bad fandom discourse about a show whose only queer-coded character is a homophobic stereotype. Still, props to the time I saw someone cite an Eve Sedgwick (of Epistemology of the Closet) passage about homo social relationships between men in fiction for why Roy/Ed shipping was inherently anti-feminist or something.This is part of why I deleted my old Tumblr. (I will confess that I used to do this, too. Not that it isn’t true that misogyny and homophobia are issues within shipping, but this is always like, two feminist- and queer-identified women yelling at each other, when neither of them are the actual problem. This is all part of a bigger Shipping Discourse in a lot of fandoms, but especially this one, with slash and het fans arguing with each other about how they hate women or gay people (respectively).Also, Roy magically becomes white again when people ship him with dudes?!?

Never mind that these people usually have 0 interest in the ships involving actual Xingese (or Ishbalan) characters.

My personal favorite is when people take their headcanon that Roy Mustang is half-Xingese (it can’t just be that Japanese people tend to find “Asian” features aesthetically attractive, and give them to characters whether they’re meant to be Asian or not!) and run with it and talk about how Royai is an interracial ship and that makes it so much more progressive.

lesbian ships anymore ever since the Legend of Korra “handmaiden/feudal lord” thing, but most of the “competing ships” in FMA fandom are slash ships so that’s totally fair game, apparently.

Most of the stuff that is about how Royai (Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye) is The Most Progressive Het Ship Ever, If Not The Most Progressive Ship Period.

I mean…did we watch the same anime/read the same manga? It would be understandable somewhat if these were people who just watched whatever is the popular shonen anime at a particular time (though I’d say some recent examples, such as Attack on Titan and Tokyo Ghoul, have better female characters than FMA), but it gets on lists of that stuff next to like, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Princess Tutu and it just boggles my mind. I know I’ve written about this over and over, but geez Louise, both FMAs are really male-centric and holding either one up as a paragon of feminism is really weird.

All the stuff about how FMAB is So Much More Feminist than ‘03 or a Feminist Masterpiece or whatever.

Thank you! I was hoping someone would send FMA because that is the fandom where I have been deepest in Discourse in my time on Tumblr, but this is going to take a while to answer: