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RE: The decision made to change Shun’s gender in Netflix’s Saint Seiya series might be more sinister than you think
Boxing people into narrow boxes is silly.
A man can be a man without having to be super buff. Asian men get shat on from great heights on a regular basis because most Asian men are not the typical 6'5" muscular blond Viking gods....
Why?
Doesnt make Asian men less of a man, imo.
They really made the wrong decision with regards to Shun's gender swap.
(PS. SJWs are not bad people. There's always the loud ones that ruin the label for most labels. Like, how 'adult anime fans' are usually seen as 'loserly' by the mainstream population. I'm sure adult anime fans can be decent people, but there's always the loud ones that caricaturizes a subset of people.)
First: This was a really well written and interesting article! It's amazing to see this situation from two completely different angles.
Second: I think the "unmanly asian man" is more a problem of representation then actual "real asian men".
If you look at popular entertainment like games, pop idols, anime there is a strong focus on "youth" in japanese media for any gender.
Now if you look at the latest western Blockbusters like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Aquaman or whatever: the protagonists are somewhere past 35. The mature Ex-Cop/Marine/Father is a staple of western action cinema/games.
You can, however find quite a few muscular buff guys as secondary characters in anime/manga/games, sooo tl;dr: I'm sure there are a huge diversity of people including manly men, we just don't get to see them, because of "beauty ideal bias" (the classic beauty ideal of historical chinese emperors proves my point). :-)
While I'm not really a fan of boxing people in either, I think it should be noted 'SJW' wasn't a label people originally took on themselves. It was a label someone started calling a certain type of feminist, so it was an insult to begin with, not a group.
Eventually some started taking the label on, and eventually there were people seeing it for the first time used by the people it was originally made to insult. So it's possible here you are both looking at the term differently. :p