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- Jul 4, 2022
People are asking if anime has anything to do with what's going on, so I'm going to put my two cents in.
The problem is bigger than Japanimation. There has been an entire culture that has existed for several decades that has treated young boys like broken girls. Boys who "act out" are given medication (sometimes estrogenic in nature) in order to "behave themselves" as they sit in front of a desk under florescent lights while listing to, as the zoomer say, their "roastie" teacher. That's also another point: schooling is heavily dominated by women with very few men. I personally believe that if a child is going to spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week somewhere, they need to have a male role model. But there's very few male teachers because adult men are, reasonably, afraid of being falsely accused of being a nonce. And that leads to yet another point: men are constantly told they are, by their very nature, uncontrollable and a danger to society. It doesn't seem to be in the zeitgeist anymore, but I remember when people were talking about college campuses having Day 0 courses that basically devolved into "men are all rapists".
Before anyone gets this twisted, I'm not saying that what I mentioned is "the one true cause above all else". My point is to illustrate at there is a deeper, long standing cultural malaise that has hung over the heads of males for an extended period of time. So, trying to pin it on "them cartoons from The Land of the Rising Sun" is an incredibly myopic view of greater issues.
Anyway, back to Inscryption.
The problem is bigger than Japanimation. There has been an entire culture that has existed for several decades that has treated young boys like broken girls. Boys who "act out" are given medication (sometimes estrogenic in nature) in order to "behave themselves" as they sit in front of a desk under florescent lights while listing to, as the zoomer say, their "roastie" teacher. That's also another point: schooling is heavily dominated by women with very few men. I personally believe that if a child is going to spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week somewhere, they need to have a male role model. But there's very few male teachers because adult men are, reasonably, afraid of being falsely accused of being a nonce. And that leads to yet another point: men are constantly told they are, by their very nature, uncontrollable and a danger to society. It doesn't seem to be in the zeitgeist anymore, but I remember when people were talking about college campuses having Day 0 courses that basically devolved into "men are all rapists".
Before anyone gets this twisted, I'm not saying that what I mentioned is "the one true cause above all else". My point is to illustrate at there is a deeper, long standing cultural malaise that has hung over the heads of males for an extended period of time. So, trying to pin it on "them cartoons from The Land of the Rising Sun" is an incredibly myopic view of greater issues.
Anyway, back to Inscryption.