Resistance against the argument women are bad presented and their designs got worse over the series? Barely, it was just a lost argument since it is sadly par of the course for most shonens.
Literally every statement I made, short or otherwise, someone tried to refute or dismiss. It didn't matter what it was.
The outfits are too fanservicey? LOOK AT THE SETTING, IT'S OBVIOUSLY APPROPRIATE ATTIRE TO IT. Women characters are undermined in combat? "NO, THESE CHARACTERS JUST HAPPEN TO BE SPECIFICALLY WEAK OR THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENTED IT" There are way too few women for the amount of male characters in any given group "IT'S A BOYS COMIC VEELK, NEVERMIND THAT HALF THE AUDIENCE IS FEMALE OR THAT BOYS COULD ENJOY A FEMALE CHARACTERS STORY"
I didn't stop because that kind of bullshit never stopped. It didn't matter what the example it was. People agreed that OP didn't have good depictions of female characters in the broader, general sense, sure, like you're doing now. But the moment you tried to give a specific example or make it a talking point NOPE, NOT THAT, THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE
In fairness, I've noticed that it's not just a OP thing. When Anita Sarkeesian started her videos, one tendency I noticed is that everybody was happy to admit that there was sexism in the videogame industry. However, there's no single example that she brought up that wasn't refuted, usually by fans of that game. It didn't matter what it was, there was always some context or some reason why it was totally okay and Anita was misrepresenting that game in regards to any given feminist issue. It's something I think happened to me, when I was reading Berserk. As I was reading, I was trying to make up arguments to mollify how bad women are depicted in that comic by trying to argue for Caska's strong characterization. I decided it actually isn't, in the end, but I wanted it to be because I liked the manga so much. There is already a natural bias to not see sexism in things in general, so couple that with something your emotionally invested in, so I think people just have a strong aversion to admitting in this particular kind of flaw in their favorite works. If it's an undeniable issue, then the solution is to admit to the problem, but refute any specific examples given.
But whether it's a formal bias or not, the idea that there wasn't resistance to the ideas I brought forth is just wrong. And more than that, it even doesn't make sense. If there was no disagreement, I wouldn't have had anything to respond to that would have made those conversations last for pages. Look, you want to say I was overly emphatic with the topic, fine, but don't tell me I was overly emphatic for no reason. I had other conversations with other communities about this same thing, and a lot of them just agreed that this aspect was bullshit, and then the conversation moved on. There is a reason that the OP community discussions were different.
Edit: Also, it's not like I kept saying the same thing over and over. I made a concious effort to try to diversify the conversation of how female characters are written in OP by trying to focus on different things about them, and even tried to set up conversations that would be an exploration of some OP characters rather than a criticism of the manga. But at some point, the OP community just developed a pavlovian response where if you make even a single post about female characters now, you have someone going "UGH ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SEXISM AGAIN ALREADY", no matter what it's about or how the argument is presented. Even if that someone isn't me. Even if sexism hasn't been brought up in literally months. And frankly, being unable to talk about fictional female character representation without being triggered is it's own problem.
and I know his 'shtick(meaning his behaviour of overexplaining his point)' .
...yeah, fine, okay, you got me there atleast. Though I like to think of it as thoroughly explaining rather than overly.
