Anonymous Coward · 5d
people really like to ignore the misogynistic abuses women endure in kagurabachi in favor of just labeling it "familial abuse" or "bad parenting" and yeah that's also what it is but this female character is very much being treated in this specific way because she is a WOMAN. a GIRL. for example, both chiaki and iori are deemed fragile, vulnerable and safety risks that must be protected at all costs because of their gender in relation to the men around them, the men who value them, the men who want to hurt them, and the choices those very men make. its no suprise to me really that the men in kgbtwt (and women too! misogyny is not only a male thing) refuse to engage with any "feminist" analysis and critique of the story in any way even if it's just a silly tweet calling akemura, akemisogyny—that would force them to confront how they think of and treat women in misogynistic ways, and they cannot seem to accept that misogyny does not mean abject hatred for women.
YES! PRECISELY! the narrative is very aware of gender and you can tell by how it slips on both samura & akemura. not worth discussing akemura considering is very on the nose already but with samura... yes him leaving his wife & daughter to “protect them” is a result of misogyny when he let a 17yo uruha, his STUDENT, enlist yet he “must protect” the women on his life by abandoning them. that’s misogyny! he was taught by shirakai itsuo the MISOGYNIST who claims women are weak! do they think samura doesn't have that interiorized? samura couldn't even phantom that iori kept training yet chihiro knowing swordsmanship was like ok on his head. His daughter was TRAINING on swordsmanship yet he still pushed her away to "protect her" instead of helping her protect herself. that's plain old misogyny lmao. you are so on point on the root of the problem: people's definition of misogyny is wrapped on "hatred on women" when it goes beyond that. if you, as a man, believe women need to be protected at all times because of the world/space MEN created, you are displaying misogynistic behaviors, even if you don't hate them. funnily enough the excuse they gave to justify itsuo is exactly what you say. this is beautifully put and you couldn't have said it better or clearer. i hope that one day everyone unpacks and confront what they believe misogyny really means and we can have these conversations.
