She's canceled for fetishizing Asian women.
I guess it's a way to contextualise "speak for yourself, not for others".In my country, it's super offensive to be offended on behalf of others. I don't get how you're setting your gears to this speed and cruising at this altitude, but hey, I don't understand the West that well, must be a First World thing to grab command of social concern like this, quite the privilege.
See OP's description with words like "wholesome" and "enthusiastic." Fits into an insecure male gaze of preferring a sexually non-threatening woman. It's revealing (and confirms troubling examples of chauvinistic behavior) that other female presenters rarely get such treatment or discussion.
I'm glad men in this thread are setting these women straight.Gonna cancel a lot of people
She has a huge following of women who see her as inspiration now because of how passionate she is and the fact that she is a big creative lead. (Which is extremely rare this E3...)
Eden: "These fanarts diminish Asian women!"Gotta love "male feminists" like Eden who speak for women, these dudes are creeps lol.
"Good" Intentions? Okay however you want to spin it for yourself.
Surprises me every time when I watch an episode of a show and before the episode ends everything is already full with fanart. I am also pretty sure that I sometimes close Pokemon announcements and it's like it already ended months ago, with everyone having drawn new Pokemon within like 30 seconds.glad she's liking the fanarts, seeing a bunch myself on twitter already, is always amazing to see how fast people draw stuff lol
That first page is disgusting. But yeah pretty much word by word what you said. Like i didn't even think of anything weird until these fuckwits put it in my head. Era's gonna EraHonestly, the sheer amount of people obnoxiously spouting "ew, people are gonna get creepy and sexualize her" pisses me off more than anything. Could you just...shut up, please? No one's done that. No one's bringing attention to that. No one wants to see that or even think of that. You're putting that shit into people's heads. All of this fanart has been wholesome, fun shit. Why do you have to try to ruin that? If creepy weird shit pops up, then yeah, shame that shit, ban them, report them. But you're the only ones bringing that up. It's like seeing a retail store clerk and telling people "hey, nobody better think about this person sexually". People are trying to show appreciation of a charismatic female director. Stop inventing an issue that hasn't arisen and trying to make everyone uncomfortable. You're being gross.
Gotta love "male feminists" like Eden who speak for women, these dudes are creeps lol.
Bossking You make some fair points, but you take it too far. Don't call people "gross". People are not bringing up the fetishism aspect out of thin air. It's precisely because it happens all the time that people bring up their concerns.
Please review the staff post. Thank you.
See OP's description with words like "wholesome" and "enthusiastic." Fits into an insecure male gaze of preferring a sexually non-threatening woman. It's revealing (and confirms troubling examples of chauvinistic behavior) that other female presenters rarely get such treatment or discussion.
Gotta love "male feminists" like X who speak for women, these dudes are creeps lol.
X: "These fanarts diminish Asian women!"
Ikumi Nakamura: "I quite like these fanarts."
X: "Shut up, I am talking."
I think you have some issues. Way to go calling someone a chauvinist for describing someone else as "enthusastic"See OP's description with words like "wholesome" and "enthusiastic." Fits into an insecure male gaze of preferring a sexually non-threatening woman. It's revealing (and confirms troubling examples of chauvinistic behavior) that other female presenters rarely get such treatment or discussion.
Its always either "real women arent as hot as anime women" or "Japanese women are better than our women" And they're both insufferableAre you telling me that the gaming community has a major issue with asian fetishisim?
thread of the year
People on twitter have actually started to call her a waifu, yes.Yikes - people so quickly want to assume that a person acting cute (and doing so purposefully) is being fetishized rather than just recognized?
She purposefully acted cute there, and she isn't a bad looking person. What's wrong with calling a cute person cute?
It's not like people (so far) are being creepy with "Uguuu Japanese people are so kawaii desu I'm gonna make her Mai waifu!!"
(... At least not that I've seen yet.)
Your criticisms about being wholesome and enthusiastic is ether wrong or depressing. What is wrong with being these things, a couple of years ago we had the the Yarny guy who was genuine, the beyond good and evil guy who was starting to tear up, heck this year we had Keanu Reeves and YEAH guy being wholesome and enthusiastic. What wrong with Ikumi acting this way, is because she is a women and have to act a certain way and cant act you know, human. Have we gotten so used to E3 presenters with there full suits and there "CEO" hands that we forgotten there human as well. This was a human moment that stood out because it was a human moment and not Corporate sales pitch.See OP's description with words like "wholesome" and "enthusiastic." Fits into an insecure male gaze of preferring a sexually non-threatening woman. It's revealing (and confirms troubling examples of chauvinistic behavior) that other female presenters rarely get such treatment or discussion.
She was great - loved her enthusiasm. Her and Keanu were the best parts of E3 so far IMO. Just a lot of warmth and genuine excitement coming from both of them while on stage.
Bossking You make some fair points, but you take it too far. Don't call people "gross". People are not bringing up the fetishism aspect out of thin air. It's precisely because it happens all the time that people bring up their concerns.
Please review the staff post. Thank you.
Personal attacks directed at other members are not allowed and we have moderated posts for both in this thread. If you have further questions, please send me a PM instead of continuing this meta-discussion. Thanks.Is it Bossking that took things too far?
Why is it okay to call people who are enjoying cute or funny fanarts as creepy, infantile, fetishistic. (I will not quote the posts as this might be interpreted as a personal attack).
Yet it is not okay to call those people gross for bringing up fetishes in an otherwise wholesome thread?
If the second person is in the wrong, why isn't the first person also?
This is one of the best forum posts I've ever seen on the internet
Well. She's already surpassed Mikami on twitter after only a day: