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TSUNDERE

                                                    July    20, 2014
                                               Rev: January 21, 2016

   A "tsundere" character initially
   acts rudely cold and dismissive,
   but later this is revealed to be          They appear with some frequency
   a defensive shell that protects           in otaku-fodder...
   a warm, compassionate heart.
                                                   STEINS_GATE     MELANCOLY
   These are almost always female
   characters; a male "tsundere"                   A recent poll of the
   would just register as                          top 20 tsundere's...
   "normal": a tough-guy afraid
   to display his real feelings.                   [ref]

                                                             (Link may not be
                                                             "work safe", but
                                                             you wanted to
      One might raise the question of whether                change jobs
      this repeated trope is somehow anti-feminist...        anyway, right?)

         A belief in the prevalence of
         tsundere's might encourage                
         the idea that one should           Taken to an extreme, it        
         persist in spite of a woman's      would support the belief        
         immediate rejection.               that "no means yes".    
                                                                    
      The feminist case for the                       American feminists often
      supremacy of the "No" has                       feel the need to argue
      always been complicated                         that Rape is Not Cool--
      (at least slightly) by                          and while it would be
      the fact that many women                        nice to think that no
      really do go off into a     It's not clear      one really needs to hear
      kind of game-playing,       why you or I        that, there's apparently
      acting dismissive in the    should have         some percentage of young
      expectation that the male   the right to        men who are not clear on
      will then display           dictate             that concept.
      sincerity by Being          standards to
      Persistant...               a sorority
                                  flirt.
   My impression is that's
   more of an issue with very
   young women-- older ones                      Back in the 90s, I remember
   figure out the "say what                      reading about a college
   you mean" principle.                          campus that had instituted
                                                 a standard code for student
                                                 behavior that required very
 (Recently, I noted some advice to               explicit questions and
 young girls on a young woman's                  clear replies in order to
 blog-- her main business was                    establish sexual consent.
 reviewing shojou fiction-- she
 felt the need to point out that                   To a lot of us that sounded
 life is not like these stories,                   silly, but apparently at
 and if you discourage a suitor he                 least some of the students
 will most likely just go away                     found they liked living
 and find someone else.)                           under those kind of rules:

                                                       "May I touch your
                                                       breasts?"

                                                       "Yes you may touch
                                                       my breasts"


                                                   In retrospect, this
                                                   doesn't seem so strange:
                                                   any standard script, any
                                                   formalized behavior may
                                                   come as a relief to
                                                   people having trouble
                                                   navigating our rather
                                                   shapless set of mating
                                                   non-customs...

                                                           GORNICK



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