The Waves: Why Anime is for Women
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🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, with the emergence of streaming more Americans are becoming fans of Japanese anime. Within that media, viewers can see wide ranges of LGBTQ+ representation and gender presentation that often isn’t found in American animation. But like American media, not all of these representations are as nuanced as they should be. Host Vic Whitley-Berry is an avid anime fan, and they sit down with journalist Princess Weekes on femme representation in Japanese anime.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, |
| 0:08.0 | Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and pretty guardians |
| 0:11.3 | who fight for love and for justice. |
| 0:13.0 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminist to talk about the thing we cannot get off our minds |
| 0:18.0 | and today you've got me, Vic Whitley Berry. |
| 0:21.0 | You might recognize my name because you often hear it at the end of the show in the credits. I'm one of the producers of the show. And today I'm getting behind the mic to talk about something very near and very dear to my heart, |
| 0:34.0 | anime, including the group of friends who helped kick off my love for the genre, |
| 0:38.6 | Sailor Moon. |
| 0:39.6 | Mm, goody stand up for aye! |
| 0:42.1 | Make up! |
| 0:49.0 | Later on in the show, I'll be talking with journalist and video essayist Princess Weeks. |
| 0:53.6 | She's an anime fan like me and the perfect person to talk about what gender has to do with this |
| 0:58.8 | media. And let me tell you, gender has so much to do with it. |
| 1:05.0 | So one of my first memories of watching anime, |
| 1:09.0 | my spark anime, if you will, |
| 1:11.0 | happened when I was in grade school, probably second or third grade maybe. |
| 1:14.7 | I was sleeping over at a friend's house and she had this really cool older sister who was in middle |
| 1:21.3 | school. So duh, we wanted to be a part of everything |
| 1:24.5 | she was doing and she didn't want anything to do with us. We were staying up late |
| 1:29.1 | as is the law for sleepovers and we snuck into the living room where my friend's sister was watching |
| 1:35.2 | Tunami, which at the time was kind of like Cartoon Network's version of late night TV. |
| 1:40.6 | Now Tunami was really the place to go if you wanted to watch anime before they were streaming. |
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