JcDent said:
I'd rather have my woman kicking butt of whoever whacked me that cry and go search for help from some stupid sources. After all, noone can completely rely on others and self-sufficiensy is a helpfull skill to have. Fuckin' japs with their crazy culture.
Yeah, have your woman be the hero and scream insults at the grizzled thug who just mugged you. That'll teach 'em. Possibly and get a nice bullet in her face in the process. I myself would have my woman stay calm, run away like greased lightning, get out of harms way, and get some help. Western girls either tend to panic their panties, crumble to the floor and cry like the spoiled brats they are, or get tha macho girl style, go over hauling butt and play "who's yer daddy, mothaf****a", and get murderized to death by some psyco. Yeah, you can't completely rely on anyone, granted, but playing superman and REFUSE to rely on anyone when you are in trouble, that is just retarded.
And for the record, those "Fuckin' japs" are whooping your ass with their "crazy culture", right now. That country is a tiny speck compared to all the bigger (and supposedy "modern", whatever that means) countries. Yet they manage to influence the whole world. For example, technologically they are so far ahead of everyone else, that compared to them, we all still live in the stoneage.
And Sailor Moon doesn't neet help because she "progresses" or "matures": villains in jap cartoons get tougher with every new episode. And unlike jap cartoons, that say "there is always someone bigger, better than you, so you must learn new powers", western heroes deal with problems with what weapons they have and don't, all of a sudden, draw some new bigger gun.
Lemme translate that sentence for you. "there is always someone bigger, better than you, so you must learn new powers". That means, there are a wast universe out there not controlled by you, and your tries to simply will away troubles are futile. Yes, you must "learn new powers", in the meaning of learning to cope with new situations, learning to solve your new problems and learning to cope with new people...etc. That is LIFE, duh! Western heroes however, faced with problems of extrordinary magnitude, and solve them with superpowers, you JcDent, don't have.
There is another aspect here. Anime, while sometimes seems overy silly, brutal or bizarre, have a lesson in them, hidden under the layer of the obvious: no matter how hard you try, you can't win all by yourself, just because you want it very much. You need the support (or use of) others to succeed. These lessons require a certain logic to be understood. Western cartoon are as simple as it gets. The hero always wins, the villain always get punished, and the heroic effort and faith always triumphs. It comforms with the rest of the western "Brute force" thinking and problem solving: "If something doesn't work, beat it. If that doesn't work, shoot at it. If that doesn't work, bomb the hell out of it. Problem solved." And all that in the name of heroic self-sacrefice, faith and "the greater good". The lesson in western cartoons are blatantly obvoius, put in front of the audiance on a silver plate. There is no underlying lesson, it doesn't require any thinking whatsoever. That makes the western society seem like immoral thughs. All that Superman BS teches kids to be like that:
"If you fail at something, you just don't want it enough, you just don't will it enough, just try harder and harder until you succeed. If you don't, you are a failure, and you suck at life! There is no need for logical thinking, no need for strategy, no stepping back and thinking things through to find a solution, and most importantly, by no means should you ask someone more quailified to help you, because that is a sign of weakness." That is what western culture is about. Teaching people to be more cutthroat in their cutthroat world. That's retarded.
That's why I watch Naruto and not G.I. Joe...