Random Rambling Rants: Feminism, sexism and trolls.

To quote CuteFuzzyWeasel, "Time to feed the trolls..."

The following is a response to a troll post on Google+ so long that I need to use a blog post to contain not just my own text, but all the links that are going to be necessary to back it up. So, the actual meat of the post after the jump cut...

Random Rambling Rants: The definition of "Mansplaining" and "Haruhi Suzumiya's a man's series!"

"And I am a man!" Zeta Gundam jokes (and an appeal to sense and not fostering fear at the end) aside, according to Know Your Meme "Mansplaining" is "An Internet slang term used to describe condescending and inaccurate explanations that are given under the assumption that the audience is entirely ignorant on the subject matter or topic." then again, there's the first posted Urban Dictionary definition which is, "To explain in a patronizing manner, assuming total ignorance on the part of those listening. The mansplainer is often shocked and hurt when their mansplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether. Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining." (The bold bits are my emphasis) But it seems that a certain gaming group prefers to use the more "mens rights"-ish definitions from Urban Dictonary.com especially when trying to make a bully's victim look like just as much of a bully. Such as...

"A sexist term used by misandrist women to disrespect, belittle and devalue the opinion of her male peers in an attempt to make herself appear smarter or better in comparison." Dude! WTF!? I'm not misandrist and does not have to do with a insufficient self-image! But this one, unfortunately, describes what happened...

"Originally, this term was used to describe boorish men who felt the need to "correct" what a woman said, even on topics that the man didn't know anything about." Indeed...

"However, the term quickly degenerated into a get-out-of-jail-free card used by angry women when a man dares to point out even the most blatant error." *sigh*

Even women can make manga series that play to certain male fantasies, like for example...

• "DearS" (magical girlfriend series) is created by Peach-Pit, the name for a duo of female manga-ka.
• "Chobits" (another magical girlfriend series) is created by Clamp, the name for a group of FOUR female manga-ka.

Then again, there are other Shounen series (both FullMetal Alchemist and D.Gray-Man) that are made by female manga-ka, and those just happen to be a few of the series I like reading/watching, for one reason or another. Speaking of genres, terms like "Shounen" (teenage boys), "Shoujo" (teenage girls), "Seinen" (young men), or "Jousei" (young women) refer to target demographics, not necessarily to their content. For instance...

• Claymore: A series mostly about an action girl, Clare, who just happens to be one of the eponymous "half-youma youma slayers" (shounen).
• Natsume's Book of Friends: A slice-of-life series following the life of a teenage boy, Takashi Natsume, in which some (okay, a lot) of the (at times life threatening) problems he deals with involves his ability to see youkai...sometimes they're referred to as "ayakashi", oh well... (Shoujo).

And let's not forget a certain series that focuses on the antics of a teenage girl who's always looking for interesting things, and by "interesting" we mean "stuff that's obviously supernatural. And, maybe it's because both Claymore and this series have a male point-of-view character, "Haruhi Suzumiya" is...a seinen series. So, like I said at the beginning, Haruhi Suzumiya is a man's series! (No, I'm not repeating the Zeta Gundam joke!)

*Looks up* Wow, look the number of topic transitions I had to make to go from something that leaves me feeling distressed (the abuses of the aforementioned gaming group) to something I more enjoy talking about (facts and trivia involving the series I love so much)! And I'd rather not turn this blog about something I love into a criticism of an abusive group's sheltering of an asshole (a "hole" that spouts nothing but bullshit and hot air) who's likely to rape someone interfering with something else I love, tabletop role-playing games. But, if that's necessary to prevent someone else from getting hurt as badly or worse, then that's a burden I must shoulder...

Random Rambling Rants: Who the frak reads this!?

Like I typed in the title, who the frak reads this blog!? If they're even reading it in the first place...(maybe that'll be a good topic for the next poll) ...I mean, I grew up when liking anime, manga, and Japanese video games can (and most likely will) result in you getting ridiculed/picked on at school (assuming that the world isn't still like this today); so I ask with all seriousness...

"Who would want to read this!? If the list of the highest recurrently referring URLs is any indication, then apparently most of my readers are wannabe 'awesome' pick-up artists...really, (if people actually read this silly blog of mine) that's my 'fan base'. And, if anyone actually checks these things, I really did link to the TV Tropes.org page for "Straw Misogynist" from the term "pick-up artists". You know why? It's because (if you readers are really like that) YOU SUCK DONKEY BALLS! You're the scum of the Earth and the reason I don't want to live on this planet anymore! You treat women like they're capture targets from a romance game, In the worst kind of way, (That link is mostly there for the quote on that page) WOMEN DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT! GOOD NIGHT!

(I'm betting over nine thousand Internets that if there's any comments on this post, all of them are going to be from flame-baiting trolls.)

Update: Did a bit of research, and it turns out that said site that lead to this post was actually an example of refer spam. I was right, no one really reads my blog... *aura of despair*

Welcome Everybody...(descriptions for the sub-series of this blog)

...who'll actually read this. Hello, I'm Shimohi (at least that's what I call myself in most video games). As mentioned in the description I have some sub-series in this blog and It'll take up too much of the character limit to describe what these sub-series are all about so, hence the existence of this post. Now, without further ado, here we go...

• Overthinking Things: This is the blogs alternate name, this is mostly my own attempts at providing tangential learning opportunities by typing about a connection between an anime/manga series, video game, or TV show (like some low, if any, rent version of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series of Non-Fiction books).
• The End of (Title of TV Series or Game here): This is my reactions to the end of a series I've been watching and reflections on the series as a whole. Because I'm easy to entertain, but hard to impress, I don't think I can really call these type of posts 'reviews'. But if the Internet thinks it counts as a review, whatever. And, yes, the title of this sub-series is a Snowclone of the title of the move "The End of Evangelion".
• (Title of TV Series or Game) the First Impressions: This, in contrast to "The End of..." is my reactions to the first episode of a TV show (anime, live-action, or western animation) or the events of a game from start 'till the first time you can save (or just after the forced tutorial, whichever comes last), still keep in mind what I said about my ability to review in the above description for "The End of".
• Fan Fiction Spotlight: It is said that 90% of everything (including fan fiction) is crap. This sub-series is all about calling attention to the remaining 10% that makes the search worth it (at least in my opinion). Well...there is a type of fan fiction I read that will never, ever, ever, ever show up in this sub-series: Lemons. Just as it's said on  the That Guy With The Glasses show, What the F*** is Wrong With You?, "Nobody wants to see your d***", nobody wants to know what kind of amateur porn I read.
• Random Rambling Rants: Exactly what it says on the tin, besides, I love alliteration! Post title format is "(beginning subject) to (ending subject)".
• This Week in (Title of video game here): Some video games don't have a concrete ending...like most MMOs or games like the Animal Crossing ("Dobutsu no Mori" in Japanese) series. So this is...an actual record of the stuff that happens in that game.
• Pollnalysis: After the poll on this very blog is done gathering votes, I look at the results and this sub-series of posts are the result of said analysis. 
• Visual Novelist: Text-based Let's Play sub-series about various visual novels, and it's not just Romance games either.
• PPS Officer: Short for "Pokemon Protective Services" (something I made up for a game of Pokemon Tabletop Adventures I'd like to run someday). A Let's Play sub-series all about the various games of the Pokemon Franchise.
• MegaTen Demonologist: A Let's Play sub-series all about games from the Shin Megami Tensei series and it's spin-offs.
• Final Fantasist: A Let's Play sub-series focusing on the single-player Final Fantasy games (this means I'm NOT including the MMORPGs in the series).
• Role-Playing Gamer: A Let's Play sub-series that covers pretty much everything that doesn't fall under the influence of the other series.

I will add more here as more sub-series crop up.
- Shimohi