this has been on my mind a lot. I follow some lesbian meme shitposting groups and there’s tons of memes that are just like “This girl looked at me and I died and then she smiled at me and I came back to life” and I just cannot think of any cishet men’s spaces that bring that have that level of absolutely dorky dysfunctional love for women. And, like, cishet men, their whole thing is supposed to be being in to women, and that just strikes me as really weird that there’s not an equivalent. Like the closest I can think of is wife guy memes but that’s just one wife, usually.

Do any spaces like that exist? Is it even possible given the way gender works in society?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    And then you’ve got the anime waifu crowd; the waifus aren’t representations of anything or anyone real. They’re not stylized representations of women, they’re like second order simulacra - anime women look like anime women and are only distantly representations of actually existing women.

    The actual translation of the quote from miyazaki-pain that is memed as “anime was a mistake” was actually specifically about this problem, that the anime industry is by and large by otaku and for otaku now, so it’s copy of a copy bleakness and pandering with less and less lived human experience involved in what is presented.