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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 08/12/2013 09:41 AM, Travoltron wrote:   
   > On 8/12/2013 4:17 AM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> On 8/12/13 1:49 AM, Travoltron wrote:   
   >>> I've only seen a handful of episodes of Sailor Moon.  Were the girls   
   >>> really sexually objectified like he says?  Or is it the usual hysterical   
   >>> overreaction people seem to succumb to with regards to anime and Japan?   
   >>   
   >>      If you see long, long legs with skirts barely covering the virtal   
   >> areas as "objectified", then yes, they were.   
   >   
   > I personally do not. Sure, men see that and think one thing, but girls   
   > see that and see something else. I know Japanese girls often try to push   
   > the boundaries of their school's minimum skirt length.   
      
   	So do private including Catholic parochial school girls here in the   
   USA.  And the skirts are according to my ancient standards too short to   
   start with.  But the Sailor Senshi costumes are superhero   
   costumes and those are always outside the limits of everyday wear.   
   It helps to set them apart from the people they are protecting and often   
   those whom they are defending against.  The male superhero costumes were   
   taken from the vaudeville and circus strong men in the late 19th and   
   early 20th Century, the female costumes from the acrobats and flyers and   
   showgirls of the same period originally.  The artists were drawing   
   directly on the iconography of the time.  I get this from reading the   
   recent dual biography of the creators of the Man of Steel, "Super Boys".   
      
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