Blah, I can't sleep and the awfulness of my college's anime club is on my mind. I want to rant about it, but in private, I've set this to friends only. Only three of you will know what club I'm talking about.
First day I went there, they seemed like a nice group of people, mostly men, but the ratio of the school is mostly men. So that's understandable. They disallowed subtitled anime, because they didn't want to discriminate against the dyslexic people. Also understandable, since there are a lot of dyslexics at my school.
We watch Baccano, then there was a vote between which anime to watch next. I voted for Love Hina, since we needed a more emotion based anime next, and there wasn't too many options for those kind of anime. The person sitting next to me said, "Ew, you like henti?"
I explained to him, "Love Hina isn't Henti, it's has a lot of fan service."
"What's that?" he asked.
I've explained it to him, but he still saw it as henti.
Another meeting, we watched Ouran High School Host Club, which made me happy. Yet someone yelled out before the showing, "Is that the one with all the gay guys."
"No," I yelled back, "only two of them are gay, and it is never mentioned in the anime. The twins are only faking the twincest." I might be wrong about Honey and Mori, but I have a bad gaydar.
We got to the second episode, they knew that Haruhi was a girl dressed as a boy. Yet when there was that accidental kiss between Haruhi and another girl, there was a cry of disgust. As an unaware bisexual, I felt more disgusted with the sound from the audience than the kiss. Acctually, I kind of like that kiss. (Shoujo-ai Fan)
One night, I brought Slayers, which is a classic in my eyes. I also thought it was something the guys would enjoy, since it's some good adventuring with a good story. Instead of enjoying it, people were complaining about how old the animation looks. That shouldn't be a care, since Slayers is a better anime than Dragonball Z. (I will get stoned to death for saying that.)
The last meeting I went to, they were playing the Gundam Wing Movie. In the movie, there was a little girl who was an awful person, and started a war by her own hands. It took her a while to die after her first injury, and the people were cheering her death on. They cheered an outright cheer when she finally died. I was outright offended at this view of death. I had no living veteran relatives, but I still have my right to be offended.
A semester later, I helped my girlfriend with advertising the Rainbow Alliance at the Involvement Fair. We were placed next to the anime club. The leader is a cool guy, but can't contain the crowd too well. I cracked a joke, "Hey, let's put our clubs together and make the 'Yaoi and Yuri Club.'"
"After the reaction to Ouran, I think that's a horrible idea," was his response.
Granted, I was only joking. But still, why is there so much disgust for a little girl or boy love?
What really set me off is looking at the Facebook page, with a picture of the first meeting of the Spring Semester. One member was saying, "Where are the chicks?" Clearly, there were two women. One was a friend of mine, and I don't blame her for trying it out. The other actually goes every week according to the mature friend that still goes. Then that jerk took the picture, and photoshopped some pictures of random women from Google Images, then said, "Here, there are chicks in the Anime Club." That offended me as a woman who likes anime. The cry of disgust from the same sex kiss I could take, but not such sexism. People should be above such things in the decade of the 2010s.
I would post on Facebook, but I would offend the leader of the club who is my Facebook friend. I just wanted to let off some steam.
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