| Re: Gunslinger Girls - Worst Concept Ever!!! |
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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Terrence BriggsTerrence Briggs Date: May 2, 2007 10:02
>> The reaction to adult women: "I wish I had a babe who would do my
>>bidding."
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> Reaction to little girls: "I think this is aimed at guys who think a
> prepubescent girl is a babe and want one to do their bidding."
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> The show is structured exactly like a show meant to tittilate the audience
> with fantasies over having a babe obey you.
So it's like Ah, My Goddess! :-)
>Only with little girls instead.
The episodes I saw were structured like a somber action series. The
assassins are blank slate newbies who make the wrong decisions in a
crisis. The mentors are there to provide the moral and technical
guidance necessary to help the newbies evolve.
The tone doesn't allow for buddy cop hijinks (as in Rush Hour or Men
In Black). It compares more to Full Metal Jacket, where the
"handling" leads to the creation of efficient, cold-blooded drones.
Don't forget the bit of off-screen dialogue that accompanies the final
kill; something like "Cold. F-king. Blooded".
The focus seems to be on the handlers/trainers, though, not so much on
the young female recruits.
Sure, you COULD use the aforementioned "training" and "evolution"
tropes to tell a sexually exploitative story. (The "crisis" could be
a client meeting, the "mentor" could be a pimp or burlesque house
maiden, the "newbie" could a newcomer.) That doesn't mean that any
story using this mentor/student relationship would be a sexual
fantasy.
Then again, maybe Karate Kid *is* domesticated homoeroticism. (Or at
least the dojo confrontations.)
Terrence Briggs, who read a She-Ra review that posited the series as
homoerotic. Two men on horseback and all of that.
Peace to you...
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