| Subject: Re: about the Chobits girls... |
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Marina
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Date Posted: 10:16:37 11/30/03 Sun
In reply to:
Ammie
's message, "about the Chobits girls..." on 13:47:42 11/29/03 Sat
>>>Sakura can kick ass and still be a girl. She's a
>>>fabulous example of a very strong character.
>>>
>>>Now, the CHOBITS girls on the other hand... >.<
>
>>Point made, about the gender thing...but that's
>>Sakura, not Chobits. Chobits is a romance comedy,
>not
>>really an action thng like Sakura; so I guess,
>Clamp
>>just wanted to go with a more steriotipical look at
>>boys and girls, probably because it fit the
>storyline
>>better.
>
>Huh? @_@ You must be thinking of Yuzuki in her little
>maid's outfit & subservient manner.
>Let's look at the other females in Chobits:
>- a teacher who had a bad break-up with her husband
>but has a great sense of humour.
>- the landlady who is in charge of the building where
>Shimbo and Hideki live. She's also secretly an
>ex-scientist who used to work on AI projects.
>- CHII, the cutest computer in existence. ^___^ She
>learns a lot and eventually gets a full-time job at
>the local bakery.
>- a cute high-school girl who works at the same bar as
>Hideki, and is in love with the bakery guy.
>
>Just because they're ordinary people who don't go
>around beating up on supernatural beasties it doesn't
>mean they're silly weak girly-wirlies.
Umm... >.>... No, I wasn't just thinking of Yuzuki. Chii is an EXTREMELY weak female character that I have a problem with because she's just so stereotypically female. Some people think that's cute and that's fine, but I don't. I find the fact that she NEEDS someone the way she does to be very debilitating to her character.
My point was that a lot of CLAMP's earlier female characters haven't NEEDED to be all girly to be girls. They've been very androgynous, able to protect themselves and still been female and had relationships with males that haven't been retardedly and debilitatingly dependant. ALL of the female characters in Chobits are dependant upon men for their happiness, which I look upon as something of a handicap. I am NOT saying that women shouldn't be with someone or "don't need a man" or anything militaristically feminist like that. A man can be part of a woman's happiness. BUT they should not be the sole source of a woman's happiness, which seems to be the case for the girls of Chobits. Each one of them is dependant upon another man to "save" them or to make them happy. Other CLAMP girls like Hokuto, Sakura, Hikaru, etc. haven't done this and are better female examples.
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