Sensei's White Lie - Vol. 6 Ch. 33 - The Light Shining Into the Darkness
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@Yautja : I'm so disappointed, I really believed in this story, but now it's harder and harder to like it, especially since I've been spoiled the end. But for the "you as a woman should be okay with your man fooling around" isn't such a weird take, a lot of people actually do believe this. Now, if the story tries to make it like the best choice, it's trash. If it's used to show how shitty is this idea, then I might actually enjoy it
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That does not make it acceptable. No one should ever, under any circumstances, accept their partner impermissibly and secretly cheating on them. An established open relationship is one thing, but secretly cheating (and in this case raping) is not acceptable. Especially when raising a child. I'm by no means a conservative, but there's a reason an environment with a father figure and a mother figure best leads to a healthy upbringing. People believing it to be a valid world view means jack shit when there's no reason, logic or cases to support such a warped perception of relationships. It further loses credibility when there's innumerable examples and logical arguments to the contrary of such a corrupted belief.
That does not make it acceptable. No one should ever, under any circumstances, accept their partner impermissibly and secretly cheating on them. An established open relationship is one thing, but secretly cheating (and in this case raping) is not acceptable. Especially when raising a child. I'm by no means a conservative, but there's a reason an environment with a father figure and a mother figure best leads to a healthy upbringing. People believing it to be a valid world view means jack shit when there's no reason, logic or cases to support such a warped perception of relationships. It further loses credibility when there's innumerable examples and logical arguments to the contrary of such a corrupted belief.
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@Yautja : I know it isn't acceptable, but in a lot of society with strong patriarchy, a women who leaves her husband because he cheated is considered as a bad woman, even worse the woman is shamed as she didn't meet the needs of her husband, the mother explained it well.
I'm pretty sure it's like that in Japan, so it is a believable story.
I'm pretty sure it's like that in Japan, so it is a believable story.
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Seinen is also a genre, fuck off with that excuse. Content sure as hell is relevant, go look at a generic shoujo manga, have it published in a seinen manga and try and give me that bullshit excuse. Content is entirely relevant to both a demographic and genre, saying it isn't is class A stupidity and perfect illustration to just how much you're talking out of your ass. Seinen, shoujo, shounen and jousei are all just as much genres as they are demographics. Words can have multiple meanings, especially across languages, and the vast majority of anime / manga sites list them as genres. All of those genres share common themes, aesthetics, and content.
Seinen is also a genre, fuck off with that excuse. Content sure as hell is relevant, go look at a generic shoujo manga, have it published in a seinen manga and try and give me that bullshit excuse. Content is entirely relevant to both a demographic and genre, saying it isn't is class A stupidity and perfect illustration to just how much you're talking out of your ass. Seinen, shoujo, shounen and jousei are all just as much genres as they are demographics. Words can have multiple meanings, especially across languages, and the vast majority of anime / manga sites list them as genres. All of those genres share common themes, aesthetics, and content.
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It’s good writing but it’s painful... as long as that man isn’t “”redeemed””
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The attitude on cheating as expressed here, I'm fairly confident, is actually a pronounced issue in Japan. I'm sure the exact rationale in this chapter isn't exclusive to the Japanese, but I think Japan's peculiar cheating issue is propelled by their prioritization of issue avoidance combined with a culture that simultaneously strongly prefers marriage as normative while not being very conducive to family development (e.g. men are overworked and can easily spend a lot of functionally mandatory out-of-office work hours, though this is the cost of very strong job security, meaning they spend a lot of time out of the home-- Rapeman's "busy at work" excuse would probably be less effective in the West).
I'd opine this is a major culture gap that should be understood, reading forward-- that said, America may actually have similar infidelity rates as Japan, but we also censure it a lot more given our major Christian cultural influence and our comparably greater tendency towards confrontation.
At any rate, the advice about letting a man cheat is derogatory to men and women alike, putting aside that the man in question is a rapist (though, the woman doesn't know): not only is it advice that invites family dysfunction and instability, and not only does it put the woman in a position of bearing with her husband performing what should be their exclusive bonding activity (sex) with another woman, but it also treats the man as being unable to help himself.
For now, I'll accept it as a perspective rather than the thematic perspective.
minako is no-shit being advised to allow herself to be a cuckquean, on that "he comes home to ME"-type beat
This manga probably would have been at home in a josei mag-- I agree on that much. But it wasn't.
So it isn't.
I'd opine this is a major culture gap that should be understood, reading forward-- that said, America may actually have similar infidelity rates as Japan, but we also censure it a lot more given our major Christian cultural influence and our comparably greater tendency towards confrontation.
At any rate, the advice about letting a man cheat is derogatory to men and women alike, putting aside that the man in question is a rapist (though, the woman doesn't know): not only is it advice that invites family dysfunction and instability, and not only does it put the woman in a position of bearing with her husband performing what should be their exclusive bonding activity (sex) with another woman, but it also treats the man as being unable to help himself.
For now, I'll accept it as a perspective rather than the thematic perspective.
minako is no-shit being advised to allow herself to be a cuckquean, on that "he comes home to ME"-type beat
It is a marketing demographic determined solely by the magazine that it's put in. The Japanese employ it as a marketing demographic. The Japanese produce expressly for the Japanese, especially in regards to art, with any international audience being a happy accident. At any rate, the breadth of what is classified as any of these demographics is far too broad.
This manga probably would have been at home in a josei mag-- I agree on that much. But it wasn't.
So it isn't.
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