I hate when people say this. Yes, obviously that’s true, and I gave two examples with the abuse of Guts as a kid and Griffith by that Duke. They are both clearly depicted from a standpoint of the abuse not appealing to the viewer, as far as I remember. I would prefer if you not require me to explain how the staging and what is shown and what isn’t distinguishes these things, besides of course that almost none of what Griffith suffered was actually shown.
Yes, I was just trying to continue the conversation and give my point of view. I hate how communication on this site is so all-or-nothing. If I hadn’t written that, then it would be incredibly likely that the assumption was that I did think that. I write it and then the assumption is I meant you meant something else. I get so tired of this.
It is. That doesn’t make you a bad person or whatever, it just is cope. It’s very understandable, since Berserk has many interesting and emotionally compelling elements, so there can easily be an intense desire to have an [over]charitable reading, but we should try to be critical about these things.
Or maybe it isn’t. As I said, I will have to reread it to figure it out.
Let us use this as an opportunity to establish you’ve got some real holes in your memory then
We could also use it as an opportunity to look at the four other times I wrote about not remembering it super well. Seriously this whole response of yours is incredibly condescending, fuck off with that attitude.
On the first point, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me considering so many people do awful apologetics saying exactly the same things, including on this fucking site full of “communists” who want to get defensive over eroticized sexual violence because they happen to like it (and/or just because they are extremely media illiterate). I apologize for communicating poorly, I just find it upsetting how people do that all the time and overgeneralized to you.
Thank you, I’m sorry for assuming you were being mean rather than just reacting basically like I just did to you.
Including on this fucking site full of “communists” who want to get defensive over eroticized sexual violence because they happen to like it
Yeah it sucks.
It’s something about Berserk I’ve always found hard to figure out or square or whatever. I’m used to media that sexualises assault to do it with every instance it shows, but then that doesn’t happen in Berserk - Or at least it doesn’t feel like it to me (the situations you brought up). It’s really weird to me that the author is able to understand how it can be depicted and what it means and so on, but then in the very next page just make some goonermaterial. I’m used to creeps being creepy whenever they can, not just some of the time.
What do you make of it?
Yes, I was just trying to continue the conversation and give my point of view. I hate how communication on this site is so all-or-nothing. If I hadn’t written that, then it would be incredibly likely that the assumption was that I did think that. I write it and then the assumption is I meant you meant something else. I get so tired of this.
Or maybe it isn’t. As I said, I will have to reread it to figure it out.
We could also use it as an opportunity to look at the four other times I wrote about not remembering it super well. Seriously this whole response of yours is incredibly condescending, fuck off with that attitude.
On the first point, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me considering so many people do awful apologetics saying exactly the same things, including on this fucking site full of “communists” who want to get defensive over eroticized sexual violence because they happen to like it (and/or just because they are extremely media illiterate). I apologize for communicating poorly, I just find it upsetting how people do that all the time and overgeneralized to you.
Thank you, I’m sorry for assuming you were being mean rather than just reacting basically like I just did to you.
Yeah it sucks.
It’s something about Berserk I’ve always found hard to figure out or square or whatever. I’m used to media that sexualises assault to do it with every instance it shows, but then that doesn’t happen in Berserk - Or at least it doesn’t feel like it to me (the situations you brought up). It’s really weird to me that the author is able to understand how it can be depicted and what it means and so on, but then in the very next page just make some goonermaterial. I’m used to creeps being creepy whenever they can, not just some of the time.
What do you make of it?