Effects of Anime on Children's Gender Attitudes

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By Ryoko Seki (545)

According to the article, there are several effects for children to watch animation on TV; however, every child cannot notice the effects and also their parents also don’t notice the effects. The writer said on the field of gender, many researchers say children are felt under a lot of biased view of gender by animation easily and in the ordinary because most of central characters are always boy in the animation; in addition the boy is often hero in the animation, which means the boys always hero, but the girls always passive, silence, and watch such as traditional Japanese women style which silence, passive, and follow with men. However, the writer said some of central characters are girl in Japanese animation. Moreover, he said it’s the most astonishing phenomenon as compare with the traditional animations. Unfortunately, even though the central characters are girls, the boy appears in the animation and then he always helps the central character who is girl or fights with baddie. At the situation, the girl just waits or doesn’t do anything as traditional animation. Therefore, children who are three to seven years old learn gender stereotypes automatically. Will this situation continue??

My Opinion:
In my opinion when I read this article I remembered Haruka’s who is our classmate presentation because I thought it’s exactly bad effect for children; moreover many people don’t notice or mention this opinion. On the field of gender, a lot of researchers have said people have been effected by TV shows since they were child and they have never suspect the contents of TV shows. In my case, I used to watch much animation when I was a child, but I had never suspected this opinion and also I got the way of thinking which it was natural that women often followed with men; in addition women always had to support men or if women couldn’t exceed by herself or they had no idea, men always helped or saved them. In my opinion, in the general animations, it teaches like women cannot do anything alone or they always need men’s helping which is the most worst custom of thinking for us. Moreover, we are bind by thinking of statue between men and women. For instance, men are always strong and they can save and protect women. On the other hand, women always passive, silence, follow with men, and just watching. We have never considered why our thinking have never changed and we’ve never felt it’s strange, so I with many people noticed this problem. Do you think women must not be strong or They should wait men’s help?