Culture Changed The Strong Female Character (Feat Indian Culture, GITS, ARCANE & Princess Mononoke)

[@tvle]

Your channel is heavily underrated

[@rohanxdavis]

Thank you for the compliment! I'm happy you think so :)

[@iw9472]

This is so cool! I get to be of your first 100 subscribers!! Thank you so much for your channel. This was interesting, and I'm glad I got to learn more!

[@rohanxdavis]

Hey I W! Thank you for the kind words and support! It's my pleasure :) I will be uploading more

[@TheAnimaAnimal]

I am months behind but I don't care this was a great casual approach to the issue without hyperfixation on getting "just all of these things right" but to focus on character at least a little bit in order to make an action flick with female characters good. My personal least favorite female lead is basically almost everything anime (as I do not remember enough movies). And yes, Ripley is a favorite since she made 12 y.o. me feel great about being myself and my capabilities. Personally I see a combination of the entertainment industry losing its art in place of profits and good old misogyny. For example, people praising Kataras character for being feminine while strong but also completely lambasting masculine women in general despite great characters like Ripley. So even when we get it right we still judge female characters based on "what type of female" they are and not what type of character they are. It's the Battlefield V mindlessness all over again. Thanks for the awesome video!

[@rohanxdavis]

Hey! Thanks for watching and commenting, and that's a great point! We do still judge the "what type of female", which again comes back to pigeon-holing people into boxes

[@elizabethtom4820]

Wow Rohan... thats a lot of mythology.. cool to know.. and more to add.. Jhansi ki Rani, Kannagi, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Princess Diana... I should say all our mothers... But great insights young man.. keep going...

[@rohanxdavis]

Thank you!

[@Tricolour1947]

Really Margaret Thatcher 🤔 Really Royal Princess Diana 🤧

[@technopoptart]

one of these things is not like the other things, one of these things just doesn't belong. can you guess which thing is not like the other things before i finish my sooooong? yep, you are so smart it is the fascist fundamentalist milk snatching politician who fed her greed and avarice through nonsensical austerity politics and unbridled hatred for children, the irish, the disabled and the poor

[@cocopunk]

Currently in the middle of binging your videos and you did not disappoint. Some of my favorite female characters are from ghibli movies. Also netflix original animations have been killing lately with Arcane and Blue eye samurai female characters who were powerful yet human not like the all perfect girl bosses of disney

[@rohanxdavis]

Oh man Blue Eyed samurai had me pausing so many times to digest just how amazing the character writing was! Loved it!

[@Algrenion]

Unabashedly bigging up the leather ladies at the start of the video KILLED me but someone had to say it!!! 😭☠ In all seriousness though I think it's really amazing how effortlessly you're able to tie modern & western narratives to Indian culture & religion in their themes. I think it's a great way to make these histories accessible to laypeople who perhaps haven't had an opportunity to engage with these stories beyond the most surface level. Kudos for that. And that's on top of a beautiful media analysis. Very good media picks all around too! Motoko and Ripley really are the best for me, I've cosplayed them both for Halloween.

[@drkevil9825]

Your video about lgdtq teach me many things about hinduism thanks man

[@binskee677]

the strong female character which really impressed me was Atomic Blonde ... i don't know if it's really good but that kinda stuck with me and i was super impressed.

[@sho3bum]

My favorite lead is Kagura in Gintama. She is funny and strong and weird and at the same time acts her age. Chihaya in chihayafuru is also great. There are a ton of bad ones I don't remember.

[@sasentaiko]

This was so well done! The Naruto shirt was absolutely perfect-Sakura’s on my list of worst-written femmes for sure. Schemas (the academic concept) fall apart quickly under scrutiny just like every other crap theory meant to justify prejudices as helpful for survival. My partner noticed the irony of the particular ATLA scene that you chose for discussing the hand wavy evolutionary psych “origins”. You’ve got such an eye for detail!

[@culture88]

“Xrtr writing drops, leather tightness increased” 😂😂 FACTS. That was hilarious, and I’ve only started watching this.

[@rohanxdavis]

😂

[@technopoptart]

how is every last one of your videos a banger? ridiculous!

[@rohanxdavis]

@@technopoptart thanks for watching! The unfortunateside effect is that they take much longer, but oh well haha 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@himanshisharma6418]

Hey ! Have you seen / read One Piece? I found the characters and the character arcs in it very interesting especially how Oda treats trauma and uses it to develop his characters. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. Also, could you please share your reference list as a google sheet or something, would love to read a bit deeper into the topics discussed here.

[@sasentaiko]

I struggle to find marginalized gender action lead characters that are well written. The bar is so low that even the tiniest bit of agency looks amazing, even if that all gets undermined by the end. Like, I misremembered Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (both Michelle Yeoh and Zhiyi Zhang’s characters) and The Fifth Element (Leelu) as having female protagonists. It’s just sad. What even counts as action? Kaichou wa Maid Sama is squarely in shojo/slice of life, but our titular class president uses martial arts and rounds up miscreants regularly, and sees herself as kind of a local hero making her community better and safer. It just turns out that she faces constant violence from cis men, both rich and poor, so she has to waste her time being a superhero against gender marginalization. Again, she’s not perfect, but she’s intentionally not just an incomplete masculinity archetype with breasts slapped on.