https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com Nerds bite back! Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-badger_graphic-32x32.jpg https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com 32 32 https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/2017/09/11/breaking-the-narrative-episode-58-back-again-anifem-how-not-to-go-to-a-convention/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:00:05 +0000 https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/?p=158057 Its been a while since I picked apart an AniFem article.  But apparently they decided to stick their heads into AnimeFest in Dallas, TX and make a ‘report‘ on it. So what I’m going to do here is go through how they are approaching conventions and explain how they either don’t understand the culture and etiquette of a good convention, how they likely ticked off the fans of various series, and where they probably made themselves look like absolute assholes.…

]]> Its been a while since I picked apart an AniFem article.  But apparently they decided to stick their heads into AnimeFest in Dallas, TX and make a ‘report‘ on it. So what I’m going to do here is go through how they are approaching conventions and explain how they either don’t understand the culture and etiquette of a good convention, how they likely ticked off the fans of various series, and where they probably made themselves look like absolute assholes.…

]]> https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/2016/04/21/on-supposed-white-washing/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:00:53 +0000 https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/?p=154899 Alrighty then, while I’m trying to work something out on the regular article I am preparing on depictions of different men in anime I have to take a small, but related, diversion: Scarlett Johansson playing Major Motoko Kusanagi in the Hollywood production of Ghost in the Shell, the argument being that Miss Johansson shouldn’t be allowed to play the role because of her ethnicity in particular.…

]]> Alrighty then, while I’m trying to work something out on the regular article I am preparing on depictions of different men in anime I have to take a small, but related, diversion: Scarlett Johansson playing Major Motoko Kusanagi in the Hollywood production of Ghost in the Shell, the argument being that Miss Johansson shouldn’t be allowed to play the role because of her ethnicity in particular.…

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