Western Media Has Awful Women

 

Recently I was rewatching some of the old western cartoons I liked in the past. For the most part they hold well. Action is great, story is simple but engaging enough to follow on. Art is great too, especially in Alladin, its picture perfect, beautiful.

There is but one thing that does not hold, women. Back in the days I did not pay too much attention to them, they were just background of sorts. Nowadays however, after seeing how cute and likable women can be in anime, I can clearly state that women in western media are awful. Selfish, whimsical, acting like world revolves around them and expect men to put up with any crap they throw at them. Worse yet male characters are always made to run after them the moment she needs them for something. 

People grilled Disney princesses for this reason for quite some time, but women are no better in non-Disney Spiderman either. Felicia acts like her very existence are some sort of gift from God and men are privileged to even be around her. It's all the more baffing that there are no shortages of men who rush to date her. Mary-Jane is only better because she is not Felicia, but there is hardly anything going for her either.

If anything, they made even Disney princesses feel somewhat compelling as they at least have some problems: like Sultan tries to marry off Jasmine against her will. That said Jasmine is no sunshine either, she too is entitled and arrogant.

In fact, I can even say that Felicia Hardy from Spiderman is everything that is wrong with western women. Good women are someone who is unlike Felicia even every possible way. 

Some anime has very good and compelling stories that really move people. These are far and in between, however.

What most anime has however is much better women compare to western cartoons. That is why anime figurines and porn is selling out in their own right, while western heroines are nowhere to be found either as figurines or porn subjects. It's not that western cartoons are completely unlikable, superheroes themselves sell well as action figures, but not female heroines.

Ultimately Japanese did figures secrets of love and now cleverly exploiting them with their anime industry, hentai and action figurines. They are not even deliberately trying to take over west with it, far from it. However, their female characters are so good, men come after them all the way to Japan. That is how it is.

Implications are simple, anime is there to stay and if western women want to stay relevant, they have to learn from anime heroines.